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      ICON

      Engaged Employer

      ICON reviews

      3.5

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (5,299 total reviews)
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      Barry Balfe

      55% approve of CEO

      50% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      ICON has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,299 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ICON employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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      5K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 15, 2016

      Good CRO to work with

      Sas programmer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Liberty to do work, not much politics. Professional.

      Cons

      Few benifits like good cab facility and food cant be seen here

      4.0
      Jun 13, 2016

      CRA

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Positive company culture and tidy office enviroment

      Cons

      Limited salaray increased rate and bonus, compensation

      2.0
      Jun 9, 2016

      Good place to start career, then leave

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Principals really care about their employees and work hard to create a good work environment. -The work is fast-paced and interesting. You have the opportunity to get experience in a range of projects and therapeutic areas. -Great colleagues who work hard to produce quality deliverables. -Flexible schedules and ability to work from home. -Promotions come quickly but for reasons that are cons, in both senses of the word.

      Cons

      -ICON's big solution to its problems is to restructure top level management constantly, leading to a rotating cast of global heads and VPs who don't stay in positions long enough to accomplish anything substantial or follow through on commitments. -Pay is well below market and ICON has avoided benchmarking its employees' salaries for years, yet constantly maintains they care about retention. -Turnover is astronomical, resulting in a situation where current employees are constantly getting more work dumped on them from colleagues who have quit. -Performance reviews center on unattainable metrics and scores are compressed into a limited range in order to justify laughably small (i.e. below inflation) annual raises and bonuses. - Promotion-based salary increases are small and, by internal rules, make the promoted employee ineligible for any other raises during the next 6 months. Managers appear to time promotions to take advantage of this loophole to deny annual and department-wide raises.

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