A learning experience - Independent Beauty Consultant Mary Kay Employee Review

3.0
Aug 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great way to get out of your comfort zone and make some extra cash. I had a really great group of girls that I was on a team with.

Cons

There was a lot of fine print. At the beginning the reassured me that if I wanted to leave the company I could sell back my products at 90% of what I paid. When I left they dropped the bomb that products had to be less than a year old.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Wonderful coworkers, amenities at the Mary Kay Building, and overall a mostly pleasant place to work from a day to day perspective.

Cons

Senior management seems totally lost. Strategy is ever shifting, and seems based more on whatever management's current flight of fancy happens to be. Little to nothing has been done to address the very real long-term issues related to the business. There's a reluctance to meaningfully change or address systemic issues leading to an existential risk to the business. It's so bad, the former CEO is suing the current CEO for mismanaging the company. They are father and son. It's that bad.

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