Good introduction to luxury retail - Beauty Advisor Sephora Employee Review

4.0
8 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Free products - Coworkers - Good base rate

Cons

- Stingy/ find loopholes to avoid paying proper holiday rates (will only give you a 4 hour shift on public holidays to avoid needing to pay holiday rates) - They request specific makeup looks but will not pay for the time this takes - Pressure to use testers of specific makeup products (unhygenic)

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly, knowledgeable, supportive coworkers. Management is generally pretty good. You get to work with all the fun products and learn directly from brand reps. And the customers are there to learn about the products - and you get to talk to them about the best products. If you're excited about Sephora, go apply!

Cons

Hours vary based on the time of the year.

3.0
18 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Loved learning more about products and working with most of the other team members. Helping people find products that worked for them was really fun.

Cons

Managers are WEIRD. They play favorites and will talk about it while you are standing right there. Practically make you beg for hours. If you are anything other than the current viral makeup style look, you will get less opportunities. Leadership acts like mean high school girls. Working here took away a lot of my passion for the beauty industry for a long time. Also, when it comes to gratis - why are you letting certain managers walk out with 4 bags of things that they have hand picked? Then leaving whatever they discarded to be handed out??? Constantly had missing gratis from my bag because of managers going through the products they wanted. Scheduling is not flexible or even makes sense. Whoever they like gets better shifts. Would constantly have extra shifts added with no notice until an hour before the shift. Or shifts taken away because a favorite wanted them.

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