Absolute worst CEO who does not appreciate his employees - Clinical Research Associate Medpace Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hire right out of college, if they need people bad enough...

Cons

I see huge bonus incentives in Medpace’s current CRA job listings. This was usually true but in 2020 CRAs worked mostly remote. Bonuses for CRAs are based of how many physical days you are on site monitoring. So we got no credit for any remote visits even though we were doing 2-3x the work. A usual annual bonus of 10-15k were a few hundred to maybe 3k. The company justifies paying their CRAs well below industry standard by making up for it in a large bonus. Not this year. The company made huge gains and profits in 2020 and the CEO could not care less that the CRAs are getting screwed out of money they have come to rely on as part of their below par salary. As usual for this company the more experienced CRAs will leave and the company will continue to struggle getting Sponsor approval for their less experienced CRAs to be on study. If you can work anywhere else in research I would. I expect 2-3 ‘great place to work’ HR “reviews” in response to this one.

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Medpace Response
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We are very taken back by some of your comments regarding the organization. Medpace is proud to be able to provide discretionary bonuses and other incentive rewards in addition to standard salary to employees who meet or exceed performance expectations. We understand it can be very disappointing not to receive a desired bonus. However, minimum eligibility and performance standards apply to all employees here at Medpace and are reviewed during this process. The pandemic has affected the majority of businesses during the last year, and that also needs to be taken into consideration. Our pay is structured off of background (education/industry experience) and performance; the Variable Compensation Program is a travel bonus and is not utilized to make up for salary. The industry standard for a CRA equates to approximately 2 years of experience. We hire in many CRAs with no experience, and find that they are compensated competitively. Please feel free to discuss with your HR representative in more detail. Thank you!

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