IQVIA reviews

Many managers are not qualified for their job. That's why so many employees are shuffled around among the managers. They don't know how to be a good manager, so they hang on to their 'empire' and can give you completely opposite evaluations within one week just because it fits their political needs. They also don't know how to train new hires. They let senior employees that nobody wants to work with micromanage the newbies with poor planning and sometimes melodramas, even though they clearly know that. It's all about politics. Work load is stressful. Projects are often in a bad shape, so people are over stressed towards the end, especially the CRAs. The attitude is very poor between different departments - balls often get kicked around, liability/bottom line/finger pointing is more important than getting the project done, and the general line is 'other departments and branches don't do their job so we have to clean things up'. The company culture is all about business needs. They won't even try to hide it. You, as a robot, don't matter. It's about their money. Various career paths are poorly designed as their experimental tools. These programs are not fair, and don't select the best candidates. However, because these fit their business needs, they won't even bother to pretend they care about their employees.

IQVIA has suffered from a drastic short-staffing that I haven't really seen in previous years, which has resulted in smaller project teams than needed and people taking more projects that they can successfully handle. Management feels that by saying "we need to be more efficient" or "simplify the approach" they solve this, and on top of they do a bunch of last minute non-project related urgent requests. Many times I have worked until early hours of the morning sending deliverables without a single "thank you for staying late" (I even got once a "lets discuss before 8:30AM" response in the early morning for an email I sent at 2:00 AM). The expectations they have are sometimes not reasonable, and there is a lack of empathy from upper management which very rarely recognizes successes but is always prompt to complain about the smallest things. I constantly feel that even doing my best and sacrificing my work-life balance it is never enough. I have not received a raise in recent years, promotions are pretty much frozen, and in all my years here I have never received my bonus a 100%. This is a shame as projects are interesting and clients are usually nice, but poor management really poisons the well and pretending that there are no issues is not the way to address them nor improves morale.