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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3.0
May 12, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

To learn new systems and get experience in various therapeutical areas. There are a vast amount of opportunities to expand ones knowlledge. also you get the opportunity to monitor in every aspect" Site initiation visits, qualification visits, monitoring and termination visits. If you were not familiar with EDC, Parexel will evenrtually train you. They have an excellent training program that helps to freshen your memory or train the beginner.

Cons

No control over travel, company politics and so many administrative systems. You don't have much time to learn them and there is not much of a learning curve. Also many times yu are thrown inot the middle of a study with know training, not even the chance to shadow or co-monitor with someone more knowledgable. Also parexel will utilize you to the very end even when they know they will fire you. Parexel has fired many people I trained with and they all felt they were set up to fail.

3.0
Apr 20, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Chance for growth & foot in the door of the CRO industry. They offer a good self-paced training program and resources should you choose to expand your training.

Cons

There is a lack of communication about important issues (i.e. rate of promotions, change of work place location) There is also little flexibility around the 40 hour week. There is the flex-time to a certain amount around the core hours 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. However, you need to log 8 hours a day. Even if you work a 12 hour day putting in significant time to get deliverables out the door, you still need to log 8 hours the next using personal/vacation hours if necessary. For most positions, there is not an option for a 4 day x10 hours workweek.

4.0
Apr 3, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Superb place to start in the pharma industry as there are lots of highly competent and knowledgeable people from who you can learn alot from. What you learn at PAREXEL will make you very valuable at pharma and biotech companies, especially locally.

Cons

There is alot of turnover because clients are always cherry-picking staff. There are also alot of "silos" so departments aren't always working together but often they compete against each other instead.

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