Everything is going downhill - Beauty Advisor Sally Beauty Employee Review

1.0
20 Dec 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Sometimes you get free samples

Cons

Illegal activities such as threatening to fire employees if they don't come in to cover other stores on their days off (my coworker had a doctor's appointment and couldn't; they made her reschedule her appointment). Corporate wouldn't let us order store supplies for 2 months so we didn't have bags. I had to give one stylist her items in a giant trash bag. Also I was told I would get a performance review (meaning raise) six months after starting and then get yearly reviews, but they keep changing the policy so after a year and a half I still won't have been reviewed. Also they keep cutting hours and yet giving us a larger workload. As part of "rebranding" each store has to be painted. The company expects the store managers to paint the entire store alone but hasn't given any extra hours to use for this. I guess this works if you're on salary, but managers in my district have been switched to hourly, and some have resorted to working off the clock just to finish painting the store in time so upper management doesn't give them write-ups. I give this company two years tops

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5.0
18 Feb 2026
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Pros

Trying new products Assisting customers with product recommendations Commission on certain items

Cons

The daily revenue quota was at times very unrealistic and unattainable. A lot of pressure was put on our team to sell x/dollars per day but sometimes it just wasn't realistic (bad weather, lots of returns some days).

3.0
12 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The people I worked with were always really cool and it was honestly a very easy job.

Cons

Upper level management was too uptight about certain goals that were unrealistic for beauty advisors, but there was never any big repercussions. Too little pay for the amount of work I did.

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