IQVIA reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(15,253 total reviews)
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Ari Bousbib

76% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

IQVIA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 15,253 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IQVIA 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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1.0
Mar 27, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Training in SQL. - Pay is appealing FOR ENTRY LEVEL EMPLOYEES ONLY; However, anyone with 2+ years of healthcare/consulting experience will find significantly better compensation elsewhere. - Free bagels on Friday mornings.

Cons

- Poor compensation for anyone who isn't hired directly out of college. - High turnover, likely due to negative company culture. - Seriously lacking in diversity. - Zero leadership, with entry-level employees left to manage other entry-level employees after less than a year of experience in the group. - The group only values internal experience, allowing 20-somethings to rise to management positions for time-in-service, despite zero actual healthcare expertise or credentials. - IQVIA eats up smaller companies in its attempt to monopolize "human data science," but has no organic, sustainable strategy for how to remain competitive within its healthcare data vertical, even as more innovative tech companies turn their focus toward this space.

1.0
Feb 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not much that I can think of except whatever talented people from acquisitions that have not left yet.

Cons

IQVIA has the worst corporate culture I have ever experienced. Respect is allocated specifically in relationship to job title and anyone at less than a VP level is routinely ignored and their contributions and opinions carry no weight. Backstabbing is routine, liars are never called out, and sycophants are richly rewarded. IQVIA wants to "compete with Veeva", but in reality is not willing to invest anywhere near what is needed to do so in terms of R&D, sales, or marketing. Veeva has hundreds of engineers on their solution and spends many millions on marketing. IQVIA wants to compete by buying some legacy companies, NOT integrating their products (but requiring them to update their UI to look integrated), and providing a fraction of the resources needed to even maintain products let along enhance to compete with Veeva. Marketing is a revolving door of untalented individuals with no viable plan or strategy. The sales teams at the legacy companies are being slowly dismantled without any viable replacement. If there is any decision to be made, IQVIA can be guaranteed to make the wrong one. For example, only allowing headcount to be allocated to offshore contractors (here today gone tomorrow), constantly meddling in and then abandoning technology decisions, ignoring serious potential issues that are raised numerous times... I could go on and on. In the technology group, there is really no advancement opportunity. All of the management/leadership slots are filled and headcount is not expanded.

1.0
Jun 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There was nothing good about my experience with IQVIA

Cons

I was hired and the job wasn't what was described. It was the worst onboarding experience I had ever had. I literally left a good company to come on board with IQVIA. The middle managers run around like they are God. They have grown too big for their own good. They acquired several companies and the senior leadership of the companies they acquired left, leaving the middle managers to do whatever they want with no real direction. The company culture is the worst I have ever experienced. There was no one that wanted to help, everyone there looks for the next opportunity to make their colleagues look bad in order to make themselves look good. They hired me and went through a restructure and told me my position was eliminated all in 4 months. I wouldn't waste my time with this company. Their product is a joke and has the worst UX I have ever seen. They are just lucky that there aren't many others that offer the same product. Seems like they lied about the position to get a quick turn around on some of the projects they needed, they should have been up front if they were looking for a temporary employee. What a messed up thing to do, people are human and actually have to earn a living to support their families and when you do things like this, it obviously shows that they don't value a human approach to business.

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