Great for retail. - Anonymous employee Sephora Employee Review

3.0
9 Dec 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free products; growing retail business with a strong outlook in a weak economy. Sephora has a strong concept and outshines its competitors. In this difficult economy Sephora is showing good growth and overall performance. This bodes well for continued job growth with little risk for layoffs.

Cons

Long hours, weekends, holidays are non-existant. Sephora's work schedule is driven by volume when the volume goes up the work hours will go up. Sephora gives 8 paid holidays, but you usually have to work the weekend before or after that holiday to get the day off.

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5.0
21 Apr 2026
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Pros

Management was nice, people I worked with were nice, fast pased enviroment.

Cons

Hard to request off at times and a lot of demmand.

3.0
18 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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