ICON reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(5,303 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 5,303 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
Sep 22, 2025

Going Down

Recommend
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Pros

Managers are generally nice. Solid entry point into Pharma Finance. Good exposure to different types of work.

Cons

Pay does not make sense in Dublin. Endless outsourcing to India with a drop in quality of work. Just look at the stock price. Company is losing clients and it does not look like a turnaround is in the cards. Merger between LPRA and ICON has been a disaster. It has left two companies weaker than either one was separate.

4.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I will probably not want to leave ICON due to their excellent vacation and benefits package. They seem to provide more vacation days then usual companies and there benefits package is hard to compete with.

Cons

They don’t give proper year to year raises. So far I have only got 0.5% raise per year which is very insignificant to match with the economy inflation.

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