Fortrea reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(834 total reviews)
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Anshul Thakral

62% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Fortrea has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 834 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fortrea 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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834 reviews
3.0
Jul 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote work. Excellent for people who have social anxiety or difficulty commuting. Generous PTO. 190+ hours per year. It's a good first job when you are new to the industry. Paid training and equipment are provided. Very inclusive. Generous matching for 401k. My direct supervisor was great.

Cons

Benefits are EXTREMELY expensive. Exceeding 1/3 of your take home pay for one person. The medical exam to get the less expensive plan is more invasive than what most pilots go through to get their medical certificates to fly and it is still very expensive. For a global medical management company, it's absurd to charge so much for health insurance. Raises are offensively low. Just enough to put you into the next tax bracket so you actually take home LESS. Even with a perfect annual review. My first year, my raise was 3% despite a 13% increase in national col. Most recent raise was less than. 1%. Wide Inconsistencies in quality control. It was not uncommon to submit work to quality control, have it sent back with corrections, make those corrections and resubmit only to have it sent back with those corrections marked as wrong because it was a different person that checked it. Unsustainable productivity goals. It's understandable that you want work to be consistent but there is no concessions made for people who end up with extremely difficult case loads while others had relatively mundane case loads. Everyone is expected to close a certain number of cases per day. It is just not always possible. Software and server problems are rampant. The call center software can slow your work down to a crawl. Timekeeping processes need to updated. Relying on a web based program to track your time doesn't work if that program is constantly logging you out. It leads to unwarranted occurances and unnecessary calls, emails etc to defend yourself when that system consistently likes to say you left two hours early or logged in late...or even not at all. Many of us have gmer package internet service...highest speeds available t a residential address and still had issues. If your peripherals are not ergonomically correct, you are instructed to buy your own. Most recently was a switch from Cisco to Jabber when the team was sent headsets that A: Didn't work and B: were poorly fitting and often painful to wear. Being instructed to "reach out" if you are having difficulty with a case. But then receiving no actual assistance.

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Fortrea Response
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Thank you for taking the time to submit your review. It’s great to hear that you like Fortrea's remote work, leave policy and trainings. We will leverage your feedback as we continue to evaluate all rewards programs to be sure they meet the evolving needs of our eligible employees. Your feedback has been noted and will help us evaluate how to enhance the employee experience at Fortrea. We are concerned to hear about some of your experiences and have noted your feedback. If you would be willing to share more details, please contact our Global Action Line at https://fortrea.ethicspoint.com/
1.0
Feb 8, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance is decent for some.

Cons

Fortrea is willing to cut corners and sacrifice quality in order to save a buck, while being dishonest to sponsors regarding the skills of their employees. This takes the form of replacing current experienced employees with the experience and training to conduct successful trials with those who do not even know what a clinical trial is but are willing to accept a low-wage to "perform" the job. Re-work should be expected for sponsors choosing to work with Fortrea, with the possibility of having to switch to another CRO who will be able to effectively run the project. I would stay away from this company, both for potential employees as well as sponsors.

2.0
Feb 13, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This CRO company spun off of LabCorp Drug Development (formally Covance) and does offer decent incentives to employees including FTO. Good mix of clients and management style. For the most part open and flexible to improvements.

Cons

The company terminated seven people including myself and my line manager here in the US with no warning last September (2023). A brief and brutal exit interview was staged citing a "workforce reduction" due to financial issues. Following that conversation It was extremely difficult to achieve ANY communication with the appointed HR rep. She did NOT acknowledge our emails! I had to eventually reach out to the Director of Data Management to expedite our severance packages. Additional FU with the IT dept. through another admin was necessary to get my company hardware (laptop) returned. The company has NO contact phone number and appears to hide from the public. It took about 2 months to resolve all this mess. It was disgraceful. I would advise any applicants to be careful about applying here.

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