Would no longer recommend - Anonymous employee Mary Kay Employee Review

1.0
14 Oct 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people who are left are amazing but their time is coming... Everyone knows it but they are doing their best with what they have left.

Cons

The layoffs are frequent, without warning, and without communication. They continue to lay off tremendously bright and wonderful people who have given their whole career to MK only to be left with extremely subpar severance packages. The benefits continue to worsen. They used to be Best in Class. Now they are average at best. Even with the layoffs, there's not much career advancement possible.

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5.0
23 Apr 2026
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Pros

People-oriented, good values, strong mission

Cons

Sometimes awkward hierarchy and employee performance review process

3.0
17 Feb 2026
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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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