Sephora reviews

Failure to live up to publicly stated corporate values of Work Life Balance and Respect for All. Meeting-intense culture (all day back-to-backs). Minimal diversity within many large departments. HR and others openly joked about “the one male” in the room on several occasions, resulting in an uncomfortable environment. Multiple instances of senior marketing leadership engaging in retaliation for those perceived to make the individual look bad. Unwillingness to paint a true, complete picture of business results – leadership is focused on “marketing the marketing”, while omitting or minimizing any unfavorable results. Bullying behaviors that are reported to HR – and widely acknowledge by the VP community – are allowed to continue, contributing to an overall toxic environment. Surprisingly poor maternity leave policy. Huge exodus of talent in the past year.

The whole atmosphere felt like a bad high school movie: sorority-clique staff, usually incompetent and attaining the job through connections rather than knowledge in the field. Promotions are based on favoritism rather than measured work achievement. There is no job security, which I saw at HQ when one girl was fired on the spot for nothing specific. Working hard, putting in late hours, and going above the call of duty is not recognized, even verbally. I saw many talented people, from full-time workers to unpaid interns, be verbally abused, overworked, disrespected, and quickly discarded, or run far away when they witnessed such events happen to others.