You'll be miserable.. - Anonymous employee Mary Kay Employee Review

1.0
Apr 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great profit share program; good leadership; very nice culture (on paper); a lot of good people.

Cons

Very stodgy, old-school company full of divas. In your interview they will talk about making improvements and endorsing change, but the company is really a bunch of tenured ladies that want nothing to do with change or working hard. As a new hire, despite all your superior skills and experience, you will be at the bottom due to your lack of seniority - that's all that matters here. Nobody wants to "do" - they all just want to manage (or fly around the world on the company dime). Place is filled w/a bunch of women who create an environment of cattiness and pettiness. Company makes good $$ so most of the employees think they are wildly successful. Someone has to die for you to get promoted. Used to be one of the top 10 places to work in DFW - there's a reason its not anymore.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Wonderful coworkers, amenities at the Mary Kay Building, and overall a mostly pleasant place to work from a day to day perspective.

Cons

Senior management seems totally lost. Strategy is ever shifting, and seems based more on whatever management's current flight of fancy happens to be. Little to nothing has been done to address the very real long-term issues related to the business. There's a reluctance to meaningfully change or address systemic issues leading to an existential risk to the business. It's so bad, the former CEO is suing the current CEO for mismanaging the company. They are father and son. It's that bad.

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