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
Feb 28, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Salaries are slightly higher than the average in Berlin. However remember Berlin wages are typically very low compared with other Cities.

Cons

Job descriptions can be inaccurate. While 80% of the Managment are professional and respectful to other employees there is the other 20%. This 20% seems to have learned their managment skills from a Victorian Factory Worker. And think that fearing for your job equals motivation. There are alot of good people in this company working under hard conditions. Think long and hard before joining this company!

3.0
Feb 12, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Order is the dominant theme at this company . If you enjoy order, then you will thrive in this environment . There are no "Imagineers" here . The titles are as strictly defined as military ranks and promotions follow a prescribed sequence. Employee reviews are done using a well defined process . There is money, so external training is provided in addition to the internally managed company training . Discounted tickets to various area events are offered . There is a sense that upper management is being careful by slowing down spending as the economy slowed and informing the staff as well .

Cons

If you do not like order, then this is not the place for you . The company defines Flex-time as 9 to 5 or 7 to 3 , take your pick . If you exercise your option to use Flex-time, you will be chastised since your department does not observe company Flex-time . There is also no dress down Friday. Business casual must be adhered to . The employees are very center to right wing since many of them live in New Hampshire .

1.0
Feb 11, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

semi casual dress code, good benefits, requires no intelligence (i.e. coming in hungover can still = a productive day)...actually, coming in unconscious could still be productive!

Cons

What a joke this place is. They sell services for huge dollars and pay the worker bees a pittance. The services they sell are usually pretty ad hoc, out dated, and labor intensive ( i.e. INEFFICIENT) on behalf of the employee ( at least in Imaging it is). Overtime is expected without any extra pay or recognition...but you do get crappy, supermarket cake once a month ( the IRA managers really seem to think this is a great benefit! Career development is nil, the experience you gain is barely transferable anywhere else...and dont expect a mentor in your supervisor, odds are, you are more educated than he is) Promotion is ridiculous; basically the biggest butt kisser who is willing to act like a trained monkey that plugs away making .img files all day without complaint or expectation of stimulating work, is the one who is going to get promoted. Rampant favoritism for the ones who arent willing to rock any boats and actually improve the company. But how can you improve the company when most of the supervisors are less educated/intelligent/scientifically and technically knowledgeable than their employees? The funny thing is, the management seems to actually believe that they are providing novel, state of the art services. The pay wouldnt be such an insult if they actually compensated for overtime....since its so expected.

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