7 Sept 2012
4Life Research Reviews
3.6
68% would recommend to a friend
Danny Lee
100% approve of CEO
66% positive business outlook
4Life Research has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 92 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 4Life Research employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal consumer services industry (3.6 stars).
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92 reviews
1.0
24 May 2018
Horrible, Toxic Environment, Extremely Mismanaged
Former employee, more than 1 year
Salt Lake City, UT
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
There are some really talented people who are really cool who work there. Some of my lifelong friends came from there, but you know how a tough situation bonds people together? It's one of those. They offer Jazz tickets and some other fun incentives, if your manager remembers to send it to you so you can sign up for it. That's about all the good I can say.
Cons
If you want your opinion and skills respected, don't work here. I've never been so unhappy and unsettled in a work situation. Decisions aren't based on logic or data, it's based on WHO says them and who they're friends with. And then it's everyone else's job to give them a little pat on the back. It's an environment focused on blame, with a complete lack of accountability and ownership. They just laid off some of their best employees because they weren't afraid to share their opinion and distaste of the senior VP of marketing, who has no idea what he is doing. The department is horribly mismanaged. They waste money on ridiculous things but stiff their employees on raises and bonuses. The marketing department is unorganized and scattered, yet they expect the worker bees to get everything done last notice. If you're a man and suck up to the people in charge, you can ask for whatever you want. If you work hard and are organized, but you're a woman, you may as well work on your resume. The way they treat women, you would think it was the 1950's. My time there was spent building up the male ego while being completely and utterly micromanaged and ignored. In meetings, women are interrupted, ignored, and disrespected. The only way you'll make it at this company is if your parents own it or you suck up to the guy whose parents own it. Not all departments at 4Life are like this, but marketing has a serious problem to take care of if they want to avoid a discrimination lawsuit.
1.0
11 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Great founders (sadly not there to see how bad things have become) - Ability to work in an international environment (most customers outside the US) - You can ask to receive about $100 worth of free product every month - Ability to buy extra product at cost (about $4 for a bottle of Transfer Factor) - Nice christmas presents ($100 and an item worth about $200) - 3 or 4 free luncheons a year - Appearance of company stability and growth
Cons
- Everything related to employee satisfaction and engagement (HR stuff) must come from the 80s - Management doesn't care about their employees (sweat shop mentality - work extra long hours without appropriate compensation) - Terrible top and middle management without a focus on people (you hear about people getting fired all the time) - Incompetent directors and above (more worried about keeping their job than making the company grow) - Low pay across the board (specially for women and latinos) - You will regularly hear and see executives yelling at people (specially the CFO)
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