Not best for IT professionals - Anonymous employee Parexel Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good and smart people working in the company. Mostly a pleasure to deal with if they are not in management roles. - Flexible work hours and opportunity to work from home - Invest into training if you will ask for that at the right time

Cons

- Company doesn't let go of old processes and doesn't want to change them for better. Only separate departments can adapt, but then blocked by other departments that are not touched by the change. - No buy in from management for anything new, when things starting to down the hill everyone revert to old ways and don't finish change transition. - Do not invest into technology or innovation - Leadership doesn't provide proper support to personnel, just pressure people into working overtime to get things done faster. - They are not Agile even through they formally has adapted Agile and SAFe. - Mindset shift is impossible, every "new" process results in being even worse and less efficient. - Do not care about their people (vacation can be denied to deliver release, ppl expected to always work overtime, burn people out, play on a fact that some people can't leave because on visa) - Bios to hiring certain nationalities. - Always conflicting priorities and no clear vision for the future. - Terrible corporate culture.

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5.0
May 6, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

full service CRO, lots of capabilities and resources for global studies. good at linking up resources/talent to study needs. very inclusive and good at recognizing talent. people are seen and best contributors are usually taken care of.

Cons

lots of changes being rolled out with limited transparency. contracting can be challenging. site payments and study closeout are areas that need improvement.

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