Good benefits; not so good management - Anonymous employee Mary Kay Employee Review

2.0
12 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Product discount is very generous. There's a limit to the amount you can purchase. It must be for personal use.

Cons

The company used to be based on Mary Kay's foundation on which she built the company: God first, family second, career third. Unfortunately, since her death the company has become more focused on making money and less about treating employees airily.

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People-oriented, good values, strong mission

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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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