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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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2.0
Apr 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

having a job in todays economy work from home unlimited company mobile phone

Cons

All projects underbid in terms of hours to accomplish tasks - then employees hard squeezed to deliver in unrealistic time. If not able to pull it off by working extra for free penalised with demoralizing "annual performance assessments" and no raise at all Constantly working 1.5 FTEs for 1 FTE pay (at about 90% of industry average pay/compensation) Superficial involvement with far too many projects at any time to really get to know the project in depth and provide quality, well informed service Unreaslistic timelines for deliverables, inability to plan anything, unexpected work routinely dumped all of a sudden without any notice, Day to day work feels like putting out fires and managing emergencies most of the time Barely enough time to accomplish tasks at all, let at all provide excellent service, one can be proud of Zero recognition for hard work Pay barely keeps up to date with inflation (and that if your annual assessment "exceeds expectations" only) Rather boring, repetitive tasks at a relatively senior level - lack of satisfaction from using your knowledge Very high turnover - after 3 years you feel like a company dinosaur Promotion not based on merit but on "not saying the wrong things" to your superiors, and not questioning anything Favroritism - some get away with doing barely any work, constantly on leaves and their work gets dumped on others who are in turn not adequately rewarded for extra work Lack of company vision/pride in working for a great company

3.0
Mar 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good health benefits and employee discounts. My co-workers were great-we had no choice but to lean on each other quite a bit.

Cons

Not enough training at all. You're only as good as the person who trained you. It's a "sink or swim" environment. Too much favoritism with promotions and new tasks. Covering your ass was a way of life. It was very easy to be blacklisted for something as simple as "asking too many questions." No clear career paths and too many people who want to be "chiefs", not "indians". There was an employee mass exodus starting last summer and will probably continue to be.

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