Worst place I've ever worked. - Prestige Lead Ulta Beauty Employee Review

1.0
Sep 9, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with makeup, and gratis!

Cons

Let me just start out saying that I don't know if all the stores are ran so horribly or if its just mine. I worked for 2 of Ulta's competitors, 1 being their biggest competitor for almost 2 years, and Ulta is by far the most inferior...and that's probably an understatement. I don't even know where to begin--the pay is awful; they do not spend the time to train you; they have no hygiene standards when it comes to putting make up on people or the brushes they use; the higher-ups think its perfectly appropriate to schedule an adult, who has no other job or school, for 4-5 hour shifts because they don't think employees will work as hard if they are any longer; management sits in the back room doing nothing but watching all the employees on camera; you will go NOWHERE career-wise. Nobody in the beauty industry cares about Ulta because they do not train and create make up artists there, and no one cares that you have worked with a bunch of products found at Walmart or Target. Maybe it is just my store, but I know that this store has been like that for years and the fact that none of the higher-ups have ever done anything about any of this says a lot about the company.

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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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