You want to love them, but they make it hard. - Beauty Advisor Sephora Employee Review

2.0
May 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive starting wages. Employee discount. Occasional training products. Learning opportunities. Comfortable uniform. Access to new/trending products.

Cons

Availability requirements for a part time postion are unreasonable: In order to be part time, you are required to have 3-4 week days & 1 weekend day that are 100% open during hours of operation. Being FULLY available for 4-5 days is essentially a full time job with part time hours/pay. As a job that is heavily geared towards college students, this feels like a weird move. You can be dropped to Flex position at any time: if you are not consistently working 20+ hours a week. Even if it’s because they aren’t scheduling you enough hours. No monthly training product as a flex employee: If you can’t devote 4-5 full days of your week to Sephora, you will not receive monthly training product. This means that they expect you to gain all of your product knowledge from samples/word of mouth, or pay out of pocket with less than 19 hours/week. Hopefully you don’t have bills! (You do occasionally receive in store training products from brand reps, but this is rare.) Oncall: Hours can be hard to come by, especially when you’re flex. Typically you will have to rely on them keeping your extra on-call hours to make ends meet. This means that you never know if you’re getting off at 6 or 9. Rate of pay: the starting pay increases at Sephora SO OFTEN, but they have a hard time keeping up with raising wages for older employees to balance this out. I had been working at my location for 3 years, and made 1 dollar more than the starting wage.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

I've worked at two different locations in different cities. Both locations have WONDERFUL management, they are always super understanding. They lead with integrity and passion for beauty. Gratis is always a plus! But being apart of a team that has your back and truly wants to see you thrive makes all the difference!

Cons

I really don't have any cons for Sephora. They have poured into me the same way I've poured into the clients that come into the store. My only wish would be that Flex employees also receive gratis because they too need training products in order to recommend brands to clients.

5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly, knowledgeable, supportive coworkers. Management is generally pretty good. You get to work with all the fun products and learn directly from brand reps. And the customers are there to learn about the products - and you get to talk to them about the best products. If you're excited about Sephora, go apply!

Cons

Hours vary based on the time of the year.

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