Genuinely the worst company I've ever worked for. I've worked in retail, sales, and fast food previously and even they seemed to care more about me as an employee than Medpace ever did.
Some of the people there are amazing. The building is pretty even though it's actively gentrifying the area. Could be a good company if the CEO and the company actually treated employees like human beings instead of numbers.
No maternity/paternity leave benefits.
The company recently announced they were lowering bonus and merit raises because "the rise of the cost of living has fallen". They also essentially had a mass layoff disguised as policy enforcement. There is no reason that highly qualified and well performing employees should be fired without any prior warning due to breaking a superficial policy that's only in place to enable micromanagement. The complete and utter disrespect to employees who have dedicated their professional lives to the benefit of the company is appalling.
They focus on entrapping every young unknowing graduate they can trick into a low wage and non-compete agreement which prevents employees from being hired at ANY other CRO across the ENTIRE COUNTRY for a YEAR after their leave whether willingly or not. Their entire structure is designed to prey on people who want to advance their career while making it almost impossible to leave once they realize their self worth and how little Medpace cares about its employees.
The CEO will literally have to approve every applicant and minor change in position because he feels the need to micromanage the entire workplace. The insecurity requires everyone to come into the office on "Together Tuesdays" even though their buildings don't have the capacity and most of their employees have no reason to come into the office and waste time and money.
The amount of disrespect and disregard towards long term employees is remarkable. Do not expect efforts to be made for you as in individual by the company. You are absolutely a number that can be removed if you don't act exactly how the CEO wants you to, regardless of the fact that you're individual human and professional.
It's no wonder they've lost so many people even with their scare retaliation tactics. Unless they change something they're going to continue to be the laughing stock of the research community. When the non-compete ban goes into effect, I'd expect the company to see a massive loss in employees as most would leave the company in an instant without the agreement.
Wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy.
