are there advancement opportunities? - Sales Associate Sephora Employee Review

3.0
Nov 29, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Fun atmosphere with easy work. As long as you remain positive you will get good feedback from management. Products are fun to play with and helping customers can be fun and lightheartedly challenging.

Cons

In retail there can be clicks and management isn't always open to dealing with them. I'm still trying to figure out if there are advancement opportunities. I know several of my supervisors were promoted from the store level and seem happy with their jobs, I just don't know what the likelyhood of this happening to me is. There are two cast members who are very friendly and helpful toward clients but are standoffish toward new staff. I'm a 30 something year old woman who's been in the workforce a looong time so their mind games don't bother me. Younger cast members might be intimidated however.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly, knowledgeable, supportive coworkers. Management is generally pretty good. You get to work with all the fun products and learn directly from brand reps. And the customers are there to learn about the products - and you get to talk to them about the best products. If you're excited about Sephora, go apply!

Cons

Hours vary based on the time of the year.

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