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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,829 total reviews)
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Marc Casper

82% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

PPD has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,829 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPD 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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4K reviews
3.0
Aug 19, 2014

Data Management

Recommend
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Pros

PPD looks for hard working people and if you can demonstrate the excellence you can go to the next level in a short period of time. Great PTO benefits, WFH flexibility.

Cons

With the recent outsourcing, there has been some layoff and would be more but management is not transparent communicating the information. Company is more focused on meeting the financial goals and off track on assessing what can work well from the employee AND financial point of view. In order to please clients to get more business, sometimes unrealistic goals are set which puts burden on project team (extended hrs). Resources are available to assist during crunch time but issue is that they are not trained well enough to pick up the task and could compromise quality. High turnover rate in the last few weeks.

3.0
May 28, 2014

Mixed feelings currently with the leadership strategy

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation adequate and flexibility is visible. Continued company growth leading to confident job security. Good exposure to wide variety of tasks and if willing you can become involved in wide variety of tasks. Recent push for globalisation of effective systems has led to improvements in technology.

Cons

Lacking career structure in several departments. Recent visible loss of excellent long serving staff over lack of career opportunities or recognition of role undertaken. Promotions appear to be possible for higher ranking but lower levels asked to cut costs and reduce promotion opportunities as cost savings. Continued miss match between opportunities in parent country and the rest of the world.

1.0
Apr 21, 2014

The worst job I've ever had

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro to working here is you are not living off unemployment.

Cons

The pay is outrageously low for the work load they expect you to do. The Burger King by my office was paying $2.00 more an hour than what my office was paying. The managers are completely unaware of the tasks they demand their employees and the person who assigns you and demands work from you is not who is listed as your manager. The employee morale is some of the lowest I've ever seen in my life. You are micromanaged and treated as a child as much as possible. Room for growth? Think again. Once my raise was 23 cents. CENTS. while the company pulled in millions and you are asked to work almost around the clock. Promotions are given on a twice a year basis yet are always given before you are reviewed. They are also done based on race. Each round the white and blacks would take turns getting promotions. You knew if a white person got a promotion last time then the next time it would be a black person and so on.

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