Certara reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(177 total reviews)

Jon Resnick

100% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Certara has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 177 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Certara employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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177 reviews
2.0
Jun 13, 2025

Beware of Unsupportive Supervisors and Passive Aggressive HR

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great supportive and professional people among the workers in the trenches. First class cutting edge technologies and platforms for pharmacometric modeling and simulation.

Cons

Although it does not like to call itself a CRO it has CRO components to it; for example the Syncrogenixs part and the fact that every department has billable targets. Beware of unsupportive and passive aggressive supervisors and HR who will NOT support you in times of low billable work. Unlike other CROs they don't like shifting you to other groups when billability is low - due to departmental protectionism and fiscal targets for bonuses. Some supervisors will repeatedly mislead you about how work is forth coming but never appears and do not provide you with any evidence of efforts they are doing to secure work. There were also instances where supervisors and C suite leadership took no responsibility for adequate training or support to empower what you needed to know to do your job.

1.0
Apr 8, 2025

Poor management style, toxic environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Broad applicability in industry Great people Better than average benefits

Cons

Management looks after themselves Leadership has no backbone Lousy management as part of integrating acquired companies Poor communication Lack of resources Slow to understand potential Executive leadership lacks courage or professional courtesy Values are just on paper; not acted upon

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