Bluemercury reviews

2.7

47% would recommend to a friend

(541 total reviews)
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Maly Bernstein

37% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Bluemercury has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 541 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Bluemercury employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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541 reviews
4.0
Oct 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

tons of gratis, vendor training, hours are great. only two district managers are competent and knows what they are doing

Cons

everything is old school even the VP, does not obey California labor laws whatsoever! most of the district managers are uneducated with no idea of the beauty industry, very unprofessional and could not orchestrate a proper sentence in recaps, the company itself has no structure it lacks an HR department. The company that is growing so rapidly needs to fix its infrastrcuture and need to train store manangers and associates more.

1.0
Feb 26, 2015

Awfully managed company with so much promise

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Wonderful brand selection, clean environment, extensive product training, gratis

Cons

Horrific upper management (both district and upper), rude managers, unprofessional behavior, unfair bias and favoritism leading to higher hourly rates that employees are not deserving of, not practicing what you preach as your "values," disconnect between CEO/CFO and what is really happening in stores with employees, customer experience, and your management team, no room for growth despite expressing interest (requests went completely unacknowledged and unanswered)

1.0
Nov 27, 2014

Unprofessional and poorly run.

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of great brands. Flexible schedule.

Cons

No paid holidays, push for the house brand is insane (what is the point of open sell if you can't sell what you want or what the client truly needs?), due to lack of payroll frequently working open to close shifts, more and more events every season, upper management is rude and disorganized, there is promoting from with in but the higher you climb the more miserable you become, no interest in the welfare of employees (ie: expected to work during a snow emergency when it is clearly not safe to drive, unaffordable health care), environmentally unfriendly (keeps the doors open most of the year, uses way too much paper by printing and faxing reports every day instead of transmitting electronically), lack of benefits and decent hourly plus having to pay for parking limits the numbers of strong candidates interested.

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