ICON reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,321 total reviews)
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Barry Balfe

54% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

ICON has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,321 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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3.0
Mar 11, 2025

Eh

Recommend
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Pros

Lower/direct management is supportive, and benefits are solid.

Cons

Overworked and underpaid. Upper management keeps demanding more, which leads to low quality work. Too much outsourcing.

3.0
Mar 9, 2025

Gone downhill

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Intelligent colleagues, flexibility to WFH, ok benefits

Cons

Poor upper management, ambiguous and ever changing metrics, high workload, slow promotions

4.0
Mar 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent team, interesting projects, good salary

Cons

Work/life balance, unexpected decisions to fire people and not pay bonuses for the last year despite of the great performance of the whole division, cancelling promotions but promoting people at exec level. Maybe the business expansion plan for 2024 was too ambitious, but operations team are not making those plans, so it is not clear why they would be in charge for less business win. I expect lots of people to leave, so then ICON again will be looking for the talents. Bonuses should be delayed or decreased but not cancelled.

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