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No work-life balance - Senior Clinical Research Associate PPD Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You'll get to see the entire U.S. as a CRA

Cons

You'll get to see the entire U.S. as a CRA. Travel was incredibly demanding for a salaried CRA position. Management support was almost non-existent. Many of the procedures were redundant and overly complicated - inviting error.

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Cons

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Pros

Provided health insurance. Good coworkers Good exposure to team at client site If you have a good technical lead, the job can be great!

Cons

You have 2 bosses (Technical lead from Client Site) and your PPD boss. PPD Boss does not know what is going on If you have a bad technical lead, your life can be miserable. Pay is low No protection from abusive technical lead (coworkers on same team can have a drastically different experience)

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