No work/life balance - General Manager Ulta Beauty Employee Review

2.0
Sep 21, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay. Great experience running a complicated business. The company is growing so fast that there a many opportunities to grow and relocate.

Cons

Don't plan on having a personal life. Things change daily and you can't keep up with all of the demands. Corporate partners and DM's have unrealistic expectations of what you can do in your 45 hours a week. Plan on working 12 hours days and six days a week in order to get it all done. Operations are ancient and a lot of time is wasted. Not enough payroll, although that is the norm in retail.

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Cons

No furthering development Keep toxic (leaders especially) allowing unacceptable behavior conduct and violation of company code Communication is very poor…it’s inconsistent,For example managers are not provided with direct email accounts so it’s a community email box. This causes a large amount of information to be read by the wrong audience and is not communicated if read by the wrong leader

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