Scentsy Reviews

3.6

44% would recommend to a friend

(374 total reviews)
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Orville Thompson

56% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Scentsy has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 374 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scentsy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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374 reviews
1.0
15 Oct 2015

Copywriter

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I loved my coworkers. The cafeteria (and staff) are incredible, and a great perk. Pay and benefits were decent for the Boise area. Not worth it.

Cons

Grossly male dominated company, which felt ironic and insulting with a consultant base made up of primarily women. Huge business decisions are made on the fly (and catastrophes ensue, often). Employees in marketing and design (I can't speak for Consultant Support or the Warehouse; they seem to fare better) are treated like commodities and regularly degraded in front of their peers. I think leadership trickles down, and with the amount of sketchy business decisions combined with a heavy-handed aura of Mormon pop culture and church-style nepotism, there isn't a lot of hope for a healthy work environment. Orville yells a lot behind closed doors and makes disgusting comments about "the gays," minorities, and other groups (a photo shoot was completely revamped once because it contained an interracial family. Too edgy). Lots of incompetence and outright hypocrisy the higher up you go, and lots of great people working hard and getting stepped on below.

1.0
23 July 2018

Twilight Zone

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are no pros unless you subscribe to a certain ideology. All I can say is it was a learning experience at best.

Cons

Working at Scentsy was like walking into a strange alternative world every day. From the outside it looks normal, but looking from within, there is awkward feeling of forced happiness. The products are ok and the owners ideology as a result of their personal religious association is certainly reflected in many of the companies actions. The company is poorly managed and employees are treated poorly due to instituting insufficient leadership and providing no structure to improve on any shortcomings or performance issues. It’s basically a revolving door. I can honestly say it was the worst job I ever had and experienced PTSD type symptoms for a long time afterwards based on my experience as a whole there.

1.0
23 Oct 2016
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Pros

The campus is beautiful and they say it's a "family culture." Your view will be pretty. They offer people snacks like candy when everyone is overworked and threatening to quit...so there's that.

Cons

- Management is incredibly unprofessional. They focus on a certain process for a year, making assessments based on some ideal that will never work within the culture and current teams. - High-level executives make condescending comments about women's intelligence level (including the Consultants) and after some bagdering from the Consultants about why there's no women leadership there, they hired a few JUST because they "needed to have some women onstage at the convention." - Team leaders are immature and the first to spread rumors and belittle teammates to other teammates. I've heard team leaders call other coworkers "mean girls" behind their backs...so which one is the mean girl in that situation? People stay in meeting rooms long after meetings are over to gossip and complain. It's toxic. - No one in the company who works with them displays respect for Heidi and Orville (owners) behind their backs. It is shockingly disrespectful. - It's not uncommon to be told you'll be getting a promotion as you're on your way to quitting, and then be put on hold until the next time you are dealing with such BS that they will again promise a promotion then put it on hold. I heard of countless stories like this. The company is generally extremely unhappy. - Executives continually talk poorly about the Consultants. They have their favorites and their least favorites and everyone knows them by name because they are talked about so often. These are women who making the company hundreds of thousands if not millions per year, but they get trash-talked at the HQ on a near daily basis. - Re-organizations happen often, disrupting teams and job titles multiple times per year, every year. - job enrichment opportunities don't exist. If you want to move up, don't worry about working on your skill set, all you need to do is become a man and rub shoulders the right way with the man above you (aka suck up deeply, possibly become Mormon) and you'll be promoted in no time!

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