Great Company, Terrible Managers - Clinical Research Associate Parexel Employee Review

1.0
Apr 24, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is good and you get RTO (Routine Time Off) but that is just a way for the company to not pay out PTO. So if you do not use RTO, and you get fired, you get no severance package or nor do you get your "PTO" paid out

Cons

Managers lie to the higher ups in order to get certain people fired. You have to make sure you kiss up to your manager, in order to stay long, you better hope to be liked by the higher ups because your work ethic can only do some much. I was a CRA II for 4 years and they never promoted me be to a Sr. CRA within those 4 years, but last week they offered me the Sr. CRA position with only a 3% increase in my salary.

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Parexel Response
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Parexel’s goal is to be competitive and offer strong compensation and benefits packages for our employees. We also encourage development goals can be discussed with your line manager, or local HR Business Partner, during your quarterly performance review, and during regular 1:1s. To provide a response to your review, please send a direct message to Tom.McGoldrick@Parexel.com with any further context for the experiences shared above.

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