Direct Sales is much different than regular sales/retails - Anonymous employee Mary Kay Employee Review

5.0
30 May 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A flexible learning experience, a job for extra income.

Cons

Not a job for starters without a huge network and budget. The makeup application techniques taught in trainings/seminar are not so up to date. If Sears are for seniors, and Sephora are for high-fashion people, than Mary Kay is just in-between.

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Pros

Best work place culture I have ever seen!

Cons

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3.0
17 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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