Sally Beauty reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(3,541 total reviews)
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Denise Paulonis

41% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Sally Beauty has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,541 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sally Beauty employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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4.0
Mar 6, 2022

Find a store with good management

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Pros

I was blessed with finding my store and crew. Everyone's on the same page, everyone has mutual respect, professionalism, lots of support and care from my team and manager. I honestly look forward to coming into work these days. Really good people are out there, just give it time and know YOUR worth.

Cons

The pay is insulting. I also feel like store managers need to be appreciated more, ya know, the ones that actually care. I lucked out, I really did. I can sense that there is a lot of greed and hounding from upper mgmt and beyond, I've listened to the way they talk about associates and such. Show that you really care about the smaller fry, give real incentives, a liveable wage for starters, get in touch with reality and support the front line more.

2.0
Jan 24, 2022
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Pros

Strong stand for diversity and inclusion. Most people are fairly friendly but that is only because there is a huge amount of suffering as a team

Cons

This company has very high turnover and it is not an issue that started with “The Great Resignation”… it’s actually been this way for almost four years according to peers and vendor partners. When I started, I learned my second week that I was the fifth person to be in this role in just over three years. I knew it was bad when I was told by vendors that this is the first time they have heard from someone at Sally Beauty in over two years. I have watched new hires in the Store Support Center quit in as little as nine weeks and those are people who were in Manager level roles… VP’s who leave after six months. Processes are badly broken. The company has been trying to implement a software tool in Merchandising that after three years still isn’t fully implemented and doesn’t work properly and there’s no real timeline of when it will work correctly which causes countless hours of trying to work around it and in another system. The company tries to execute too many initiatives at one time and ends up doing few (if any) of them very well. As you can read in other reviews of working in the Store Support Center, there is simply not enough headcount to do good work… everything is a rush job and timelines are rarely realistic. Part of the issue starts with onboarding… or the complete lack of it in Sally Beauty’s case.

3.0
Jan 19, 2022

sad

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Pros

hours aren't too bad and easy to handle the store independently, management seems desperate so will negotiate with you, honestly when things are going right its pretty peaceful

Cons

not enough management will not allow anyone to have a set schedule, its different each week seems like whoever is in charge of shipments/inventory/promotions does not care at all about quality over quantity. my store had 4 employees and we were all part time, how are we expected to change every single price tag under all products, when they send these as unorganized stacks of paper where we have to sift through thousands of tags just for half of them to not even have a price change....its a waste of our time another thing, when shipment comes in, again very disorganized, around 30% of product has to be damaged out and thrown away due to items spilling. Lids just falling off and lathering hair extensions in crusted shampoo... How does this happen... There is also the issue of never getting the correct shipment either, as well as getting stuff that we dont even sale anymore but not getting the stuff we've waited months to get, and then when we do get it, its damaged and empty.

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