ICON reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,314 total reviews)
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Barry Balfe

55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ICON has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,314 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ICON 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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2.0
Dec 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Office hours were flexible ( could be because the company didn't have a lot of work coming through ). Surfing on company's internet.

Cons

Management is the absolute worst. no idea how people are promoted to be Managers since most of them have zero management skills and lot of them are not even educated enough to be an analyst let alone a manager. I guess being the yes man to the Director gets you promoted. the pay is so low that it forces employees to leave and then when someone leaves they take in personally as if the employee doesn't have the right to search outside. when I left none of the managers wished me good luck or got an exit interview, all I got was a shrug. the employees are pretty dispensable. Even when there was no work, they kept showing us this rosy picture that more work in on the way. Poor quality chairs and tables. Looked like they bought them online at craigslist since most of the chairs were torn or had marks on them and very uncomfortable. The whole office was shabby. No career growth.

1.0
Dec 14, 2014

Stay Away!!

Recommend
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Pros

Nothing Good Will Ever Happen There!

Cons

If I said it was a horrible place to work, it would be giving that place a badge of honor. Management is terrible! Everyone top to bottom is over worked, under paid. Its the only place where I have seen people physically hurt by a job. Either needing medication to deal with endless stress or being wheeled out by EMTs because of nervous breakdowns. If you are really hard up for a job and your kids are starving...consider working for this company. Otherwise safe yourself the time and energy and work elsewhere.

1.0
Nov 19, 2014

Stagnant

Recommend
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Pros

None may have the potential of learning if they have staff and time to train

Cons

Over worked and no career growth

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