For a Store Director, your job is never done and upper management does not understand how challenging it can be - Store Director Sephora Employee Review

3.0
30 June 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Sephora does care about it's employees, but seemingly more at the lower level. Plenty of opportunity to move up if you are just starting your management career and they give you a lot of opportunity for growth if you put forth an effort. As a Store Director in St Louis, the DM and RVP have not been Store Directors in their past so a lot of miscommunication or a lack of general understanding of the job, time involved in completing tasks, very high expectations.

Cons

As a Store Director in St Louis, the DM and RVP have not been Store Directors in their past so a lot of miscommunication or a lack of general understanding of the job, time involved in completing tasks, very high expectations. Sephora always has about 3 or 4 "focuses", which makes it hard to focus on just one thing and get it mastered. Despite the great client service, it seems clients are never happy, which leads to more stress.

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Cons

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3.0
18 Mar 2026
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Pros

Loved learning more about products and working with most of the other team members. Helping people find products that worked for them was really fun.

Cons

Managers are WEIRD. They play favorites and will talk about it while you are standing right there. Practically make you beg for hours. If you are anything other than the current viral makeup style look, you will get less opportunities. Leadership acts like mean high school girls. Working here took away a lot of my passion for the beauty industry for a long time. Also, when it comes to gratis - why are you letting certain managers walk out with 4 bags of things that they have hand picked? Then leaving whatever they discarded to be handed out??? Constantly had missing gratis from my bag because of managers going through the products they wanted. Scheduling is not flexible or even makes sense. Whoever they like gets better shifts. Would constantly have extra shifts added with no notice until an hour before the shift. Or shifts taken away because a favorite wanted them.

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