Pros
- Rewarding experience with building clients - Amazing product with endless possibilities - 50% employee discount
Cons
Unrealistic goals, rules and expectations regardless of job title. No room for growth unless you commit to sucking up and the company still prefers to hire outside from the company rather than its own bread and butter. So much miscommunication from senior management that no employee has any idea of anything happening outside their store. Intimidation and pressure filters down from Regional level to District and right to store management to the point where its unnecessary and makes even the BA's uneasy. Often BA's and Key Holders can wind up doing more work and having higher sales goals on most days than an ABM or BM. Unfair bonuses for making monthly plan; if the store does 12% over sales plan, they achieve their maximum bonus goal where the boutique manager gets a $1K bonus and BA's get under $100 even though employees can sometimes outsell and have higher metrics than the BM. Employees are basically required to put the company first before anything else regardless if you're sick (with a doctor's note), have an emergency, etc and only staff the smallest amount of people to where if something happened where you couldn't work, the whole store has to limp on without you. Next-to-no gratis but employees are required to feature and wear the product (including limited edition products) which results in having to spend out of pocket. Working at store level is an enjoyable experience and depending on your location, I would say give it a shot. However, my experience with Bare Escentuals has been nothing but cut-throat, catty and unprofessional and as a result, I'm looking to jump ship for a better cosmetic company.
