No room for growth - Cashier/Task Associate Ulta Beauty Employee Review

2.0
Jun 10, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

50% salon discount Discount off everything in store The girls at my store are awesome

Cons

Schedules are never made more than a week in advance. You will have to plan all your weekends two or three days before the schedules are made. Hours are also unfairly distributed among cashiers-- one person will get 5 hours, while another will get 20 hours, despite open availability. Management will hire outside rather than promoting internally; they are given based on favoritism, rather than efficiency, meeting of goals, getting high NPS scores from customers, and getting customers to sign up for the scam magazine subscriptions. I have worked for the company for over a year and a half and each time, upper management (GM and DM) promotes an outside employee who has only been working for 3 months. They eventually quit the company. You will constantly get bitched at by customers with all the coupon restrictions-- 90% of them who are too lazy to read the fine print. General Managers are consistently getting moved around, or fired. It is apparent that the company doesn't value education. Unlike other companies, you will have to work holidays. Non management will never get pay and a half for working holidays. It's no wonder turnover rate is so high.

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