Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,839 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

78% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,839 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
Jun 16, 2017

Sinking ship

Recommend
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Pros

Health Insurance, dental insurance, PTO, 401K

Cons

High turnover, incompetent management, outdated systems, high stress due to constant layoffs and reorganizations, compensation about 15% below market.

2.0
Feb 25, 2016

Horrible Culture - Employees are used and abused

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

working from home is the only pro that I can think of at this time since you get to hang out in your pjs and your pets.

Cons

they do not care about you, if you are a good employee then you will be punished with the worst projects, the rescue missions, the clients that no one else wants. They will over resource you and overwork you and make promises that it will get better (with no actions) until you break. If you are bad, you will be left alone. Take away - don't do too good of a job.

1.0
Apr 7, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* Training department has a lot of video presentations on clinical regulations in a well organized library for online viewing * If you work hard and do a good job, you can be assigned even more challenging work to learn and sharpen your skills * It is a big company and you can move around to other divisions to expand your knowledge

Cons

* In the 2000s and up until 2015, it was a good company.. Then the founder was less involved and his COO made a mess. We thought it would get better in 2017 when private equity acquired the company, but it got worse and many of us quit in 2018 * In every country region and functional groups, the corporate defined salary scale is way below market rates * As a manager of a profitable service group, it was extremely difficult to get approval to promote staff (and approvals were rare and few) - this was the same problem for my boss and his boss above him * The private equity's executive leadership was so egotistical and ambitious that it was creating a culture of backstabbing worthy of a cheesy TV reality show

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