iHerb·Software Engineer

iHerb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

San Diego, CAPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt like it leaned hard on trivia and very specific knowledge, and the mismatches hit me early.

I started with a casual recruiter conversation about my background and why I was looking, and a short while later I got a phone screen with a manager. The technical part included JavaScript trivia questions—more theory than anything I’d actually done day to day—which meant I couldn’t rely purely on on-the-job experience.

When I reached the final interview, it was a multi-hour session where I expected standard whiteboard-style problem solving, but instead I ran into lots of React and JavaScript trivia again. The format also felt disorienting because the people showing up didn’t exactly match

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