Growing too fast - Associate Manager Ulta Beauty Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Discount on products including prestige makeup and salon services. Decent pay. Great training materials created at corporate level, however given almost no time to realistically utilize them in the store.

Cons

Where to start very challenging big box atmosphere that pretends to be a specialty store. Extremely high staff turnover due to impossible work load. Huge stores with often just 2 people working at once on retail floor. Managers end up running a register for a large part of the day. Low stock levels in smaller stores make unhappy customers. Extremely high theft.

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Cons

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