Company headed in bad direction. - Anonymous employee iHerb Employee Review

1.0
3 June 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They provide some good snacks (I believe that's changed though). There is room for growth within the company because everyone is leaving. Work with some cool technology.

Cons

Don't trust the fake reviews on Glassdoor. The company has no direction.. Management treats there employees like expendable cattle. Most employees won't get a raise or promotion unless they threaten to quit. High turn over rate and many of the employees with tribal knowledge are all leaving. Tech stack is interesting but horrible practices leading to constant outages.

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iHerb Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We have always had long-term plans and directions and due to feedback are sharing more with monthly president’s messages, quarterly all-hands, among many other methods to share direction. While some reviews might seem overly positive because some people really fit the culture and enjoy it here, there are definitely some that are the opposite so we will take the useful parts of them so that we can use those to improve. With regards to raises/promotions, iHerb is following leading industry standards of annual performance reviews which will determine raises and promotions. Before and during the transition towards the standardized 360 merit-based process, we do realize there were outliers and issues which is why we made the change. - BT Bitarafan

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