Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,831 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 3,831 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
Apr 18, 2012

Sweat shop - very under staffed

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Pros

- work from home which gives out some flexibility - benefit package is fairly standard - global experience managing tudies

Cons

- Sweat shop; employees are pushed daily - no work-life balance; management expects everyone to work very long hours -no room for growth - no recognition for going above and beyond the line the duty

2.0
Apr 14, 2012

Overwhelmed and burned out

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A good place to get a broad experience and work with some really great people. There's a 20 word minimum for this to post, but I really can't think of anything else I would categorize as positive.

Cons

The company sells services/programs before they are ready to be implemented. Employees are left figuring out work arounds and trying to explain to clients why what they are paying for isn't working. Training in many jobs is almost non-existent. You sink or swim. Good people quit because they just can't take the stress. Staffing on projects is completely unrealistic. Management is located in its own building in Waltham, while everyone else is in Massachusetts is 20 miles away in Billerica.

2.0
Mar 20, 2012

Overwhelming workload

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Pros

flexible working hours which most CROs have

Cons

sparse communication that tends to be one-way standards for performance evaluation, salary increase and promotion not often objective poor resource management leading to quick burnout of employees workload does not allow any personal time for life no overtime pay but workload forces employees to work even on weekends

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