iHerb reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(768 total reviews)

Emun Zabihi

79% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

iHerb has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 768 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The iHerb employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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768 reviews
1.0
Jan 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home. Fantastic medical benefits for you and family.

Cons

C-Suite leadership lacks honesty, transparency and real subject matter expertise. Leadership full of greed, arrogance and hypocrisy. Trust, promotions, money reserved for family and friends regardless of experience. Technology stack sorely out of date. Inability to recognize and retain talented, forward-thinking people.

3.0
Jan 23, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Alright listen up iHerbians and prospective iHerbians.. I know iHerb gets a bad rap and has had its fair share of negative reviews, and some of their points are justified, but they're also as much, if not more, to do with unavoidable business/tech growing pains and inclinations toward negativity/defeatism in the hearts of the disgruntled people that leave these melodramatic reviews. You have to understand that iHerb, like most companies eager to implement a good business idea, prioritized speed to market, which worked out in fast growth and huge success. With that prioritization unfortunately usually comes with negligence in other departments such as code quality, regulated communication protocols, and employee well-being. While these negative after-effects are still felt, the culture is starting to slowly shift in the right direction. Managers across the board are increasingly providing more space to refactor old systems and design out new ones, and they're being less punitive about mistakes and more optimistic and supportive of improvement. Employees are getting more PTO and the ability to work from home is being granted more leniently. Even disregarding the improvements being made, there are many pros to working at iHerb. There are TONS of opportunities here and there's a lot that you can learn, especially if you are a junior. There's also a lot of leadership opportunities and vacancies waiting to be filled. The people here are friendly and approachable; iHerb is pretty good at not hiring jerks with egos. And their snack game is pretty on point.

Cons

There are too many junior developers and too little alpha senior developers. Junior developers are not given the concrete guidance and mentoring needed because there aren't enough lead senior developers who are eager to steer teams, take risks, and proactively change tech culture. Your on call rotation can be brutal depending on which team you're on. Raises and promotions both seem rather stingy here.

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iHerb Response
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Thanks for your review! We are definitely looking to hire more experienced developers to lead the junior developers. Goals for 2020 and beyond are also much more planned than before and we're communicating them out as well. Thanks for you faith and concrete feedback. Raises and promotions are also becoming normalized and on a yearly schedule the way a bigger company should do it, and therefore some people may have been unhappy towards that transition but as you said this will be better soon as we repeat the official cycles yearly.
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