Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,841 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 3,841 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
Feb 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

There are many good hard working focused middle management persons within the Company. It seems that some upper management has lost control and priority of day to day activities. Some Managers need to take ethical behavior coursework based on their language, inuendos, and overall lack of professional style. There are new persons coming to leadership roles from other industries and having impact on business direction and team members (cause for dismissal).

Cons

There is a profound lack of working your way up to more senior roles. Divisional splits also represent huge challenges in credibility, project direction, tasks, budgets, projects. There is a definite lack of defined policies. Despite the Company growth rate, inadequate business policy exists, adding confusion to daily direction. Huge knowledge loss as many persons leaving the Company. Outdated SOP's and GOP's. Lack of real business roadmap complicates division direction and stability. Many projects that are not led properly and huge wastes of resources and money.

2.0
Jun 26, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits Wonderful co-workers (depends on your department)

Cons

low pay no training (all you do is read SOPs when you first start out) no career development (they ask you to indicate what trainings you would like to take to enhance job performance and absolutely no strides are made to get you this training) No structure or set procedures (everyone just does their own thing and there is no consistency between people performing the same tasks) Upper management has absolutely no clue as to what goes on with the actual employees who do the work. They just make these stupid decisions and changes and then everything falls apart. Then abruptly things are changed again and it's the same vicious cycle over and over again. They re-brand more times than I can count. There are way too many VPs at the moment. I completely lost track. Upper management people leave the company and come back a few months later as VP of this or that. I could go on and on seriously. If you are looking for a job where you can grow professionally look elsewhere because all you will get from parexel is bad habits that you don't want to take else where.

4.0
Apr 25, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

PAREXEL has been very fair in my career development and helping me to achieve my career goals. My direct manager is very fair and work life balance oriented. I feel part of the reason I have been successful is my take initiative attitude. I have seen others fail who might very well be a great employee but they get left behind in the "sink or swim" environment.

Cons

Upper management is so disconnected from the actual work that their decisions and policies are not always effective or wise. Some of the tools provided are too complex with little or no training. It is expected that you will "figure it out on your own" but at the same time are reprimanded for figuring it out wrong. Upper management seems to have a "do as I say attitude" with complete disregard for employee comments/suggestions. It can be very frustrating.

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