ICON reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(5,295 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 5,295 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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4.0
Mar 29, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, opportunities to work at home, on-site cafeteria, people are really nice to work with

Cons

Merit pay increases and bonuses are not very good, too many inefficient systems that result in redundancy of effort, high staff turnover, staff is allocated to too many projects, high stress level across groups, difficult to replace headcount, not a good work-life balance, exit interviews are no longer conducted when employees leave the company so the reasons they are leaving are not being documented, senior management is far-removed from the day-to-day and out of touch with employees

1.0
Jan 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

ICON is a good place to start your career. You will learn so much about how not to do things!

Cons

ICON is too focused on the bottom line even at the expense of quality. It also puts profits over people. Our CEO can lay off people telling them it's for budgetary purposes while the stock price is at record highs and him being the highest paid CEO in Ireland.

1.0
Mar 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great. Best in my career.

Cons

Middle management is a sad group. Lack of leadership has made this a sinking ship. A lot of meaningless talk and backstabbing. Could have been great but left with incompetent sr leader. No integrity.

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