Belk reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(3,875 total reviews)

Don Hendricks

44% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Belk has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,875 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Belk employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
4.0
Nov 3, 2024

Pleasant

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Staff was wonderful. There is always something to do to fill the time. Fun dress up days. Excellent work/life balance.

Cons

Not much room to move up.

3.0
Nov 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Selling Beauty can be Easy. Many days are extremely slow so managers will pull you to another area in the store to overwork you. Having you Complete tasks you are not even slightly familiar with.

Cons

Lots of Disrespect and Unprofessionalism from older Employees that have been there for ancient years. Like extremely unnecessary harassment and conflict . Super emotionally draining. You have to get a doctors note to be able to wear tennis shoes or non classy shoes. We were required to wear dressy shoes like heels, flats, wedges etc. Those were very painful.

2.0
Nov 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Gratis (free product allowance) as an Estee Lauder representative, samples, enjoyable customers, learning about the product and communicating product knowledge, makeup artist events, Estee Lauder executive management are awesome!

Cons

Belk work schedule, lack of flexibility, not family friendly, does not promote from within, stressed and frazzled store level management always seem to be desperately fighting for their professional lives, expectation of selling store credit card with 35% APR to valued customers, expectation of getting email addresses, app downloads, managers that are unhelpful, overworked with nasty attitude, constant pre-selling and sales promotions, so many vacation blackout periods, need to have any schedule request in 21 days in advance, lack of walk in business makes it difficult to build a clientele- veteran beauty consultants jealously guard "their clients" (which is literally anyone who bought anything from them ever), expectation of giving sales credit to others even when they're off work or on vacation, predatory environment as a result of totally desperate sales consultants who are hanging on to department store beauty as if their lives depended on it

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