Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,830 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

78% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,830 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Parexel 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
1.0
Aug 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They claim to be flexible.

Cons

Compensation is really poor compared to the amount of responsibility they concentrate on each employee. Management style is really poor. Team synergy is non-existent. They foster individualism and dirty competence among all the levels within the organization. They are proud of their "state-of-the art" technology development/applications, yet they hire people who are actual technology illiterates. Systems were full of glitches. A dozen servers were down every day. If you are thinking of becoming part of their IT team in Latin America, stay away.

2.0
Mar 19, 2017

Project Specialist

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lot of learning opportunities for young professionals wanting to make their first steps into the CRO/Pharmaceutical Industry.

Cons

The past few years there has been a ver aggressive outsourcing strategy that has resulted in a complete mess. Nobody knows who does what and most of the outsourced roles are being filled with cheap unqualified staff.

1.0
Apr 3, 2014

You are on your own

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Young and unexperienced people working in a rapidly changing environment. You would think that new ideas could be accepted. I don't find many pros.

Cons

Lack of process: process are not clear and are in fact burocratic. To get something done in a timely manner is hard (i.e: reimbursments or having a business card done could take a month or more). Intermediate management is not committed to their work so you are on your own to solve problems the best you can. Good luck! The moto: "Own the problem and the solution" is a lie. Be very careful about it. It is tricky. They hire unexperienced people who doesn't know a thing about the buisness. Work overload. No readjustments to the salary. Regarding carreer expectations: in internal candidates, they prioritize only those that has exactly the same profile than the required by the client: i.e: if the external candidate and you have the same profile, only this way they will choose you. Otherwise, it is impossible to change positions. Lack of planning in the long term. You will have to work extra hours to find solutions to many things that could be prevented (i.e: getting short of concomitant medications in a country and withholding recruitment due to that situation)

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