Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,836 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

77% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,836 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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1.0
Dec 26, 2020

Incompetent and nasty

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Pros

Flexible work-from-home policy, that is all

Cons

Never in my life have I worked with a more incompetent and, quite frankly, nasty group of people. You'll be lied to during the hiring process and then be met with resistance and open hostility any time you attempt to do the job you were hired to do (because doing your job successfully could potentially hurt someone's feelings). A clueless and disrespectful executive team and a horrible HR department work together to reward incompetent managers with promotions while driving away or laying off anyone with intelligence and talent. There is no job security here where frequent layoffs are the norm. I advise anyone reading these reviews to scroll back a few pages where it's a steady stream of one negative review after another, then suddenly in September the positive five-star reviews began flooding in. These are clearly fake reviews being posted by management/HR.

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Parexel Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your review. We're disappointed to hear that you have had a less than satisfactory experience with the HR Department. We take the concerns and the happiness of Parexel employees seriously. While we will be taking your feedback into consideration as we look for ways to improve the employee experience, I encourage you to send me a message at Tom.McGoldrick@Parexel.com with your feedback
1.0
Jun 9, 2020

The Decaying CRO

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Pros

Salary is decent, some good people remain but most have left or gotten laid off. Bonuses were good but with the companies struggles I don't think will be seeing those for a long time. Can gain some good experience but highly dependent on if you work on Enterprise accounts or Biotech accounts. Would advise you to push for Enterprise. Biotech PLs have it worse.

Cons

Terrible leadership from the top. Example, the CFO dressed as "Tiger King" and told everyone we're fine. One week later he was asking everyone to take voluntary pay cuts, otherwise layoffs would start. PLs are understaffed, your project load will be unmanageable. The systems are easily the worst I've ever worked in.

1.0
Jan 14, 2019

Chaos Reigns Supreme at PAREXEL

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Pros

The salaries and benefits are generous.

Cons

They have recovered from the restructure and equity partner purchase of them from years ago. Some that survived the layoff were promoted beyond their ability.

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