Work here if it’s your last option, and even then think twice - Anonymous employee Benefit Cosmetics Employee Review

- below market pay across most roles, like significantly - sketchy approach to promotions, if granted, most don’t come with raises - somehow they go out of their way to hire the worst managers. Forget leadership skills or even being competent in their role, a disturbing amount of them don’t have the common sense on how not to violate basic harassment labor laws. It’s actually amazing how many times you hear about former employees settling or getting payouts due to suffering from management behavior - high turnover - effort gets reprimanded/punished to protect the institutionalized culture of doing the least you possibly can get away with. Was actually told at one point I had too much knowledge about how to do the project and that intimidated my coworkers. - hr so incompetent, not that you expect sympathy for employees but they’re such a joke they can’t even protect company properly and end up creating labor violations of their own - hypocritical stance on women empowerment, uses it to market products and yet most of leadership dominated by men - weird cliques, often race-based. French people openly talked about how they wouldn’t even consider non-French candidates to interview for their team - can’t work from home - weird power-trippy micromanagement moves from management like not granting vacation, work from home policy, keeping some employees on hourly wages even tho their market equivalents are salary - management seems to always been taking hella vacation, like legit 4+ weeks - sometimes teams do this strange contract-trial period where when people start where they test run you on contract until you “prove yourself” or get let go. more people than you think get let go. - constant tribal fights - widespread low morale - product aesthetic and packaging is cringe-worthily dated and people in charge of that side of operations seem content to keep it that way