Buckle up... I worked at Medpace for almost 4 years directly out of college and all I can say is wow. This company (or the CEO I should say) doesn't care about the employees or the work that they put in. The company did a mass lay off in 2020 and hired all of the newbies and paid them bare minimum for the jobs of the people they terminated. Fast forward to 2024, they did ANOTHER mass lay off due to WFH compliance not being met. They fired LONG TIME managers and other GREAT employees strictly due to this. This would be understandable if there had been a warning rather than being completely blindsided. They fired managers for not upholding the WFH policy and then proceeded to fire those under the managers who didn't follow the policy as well. Almost a wrongful termination if you ask me. They took away merits, bonuses and then proceeded to fire some of their best employees on top of that. When asked why we were being terminated, it was simply because our butts weren't in our seats. Those who were not terminated are actively looking for new jobs because who would want to work for a company that doesn't care about their employees whatsoever? I had an insane amount of work dumped on me for the 4 years I spent there and I did everything that was asked of me and more. Never once was there a complaint about my performance and I was consistently praised by the sponsors and managers in my department for the work I was doing. This company dumps an insane amount of work on their employees for the worst pay imaginable. Other CROs pay their employees $20-40K more for the same work, yet the CEO gets on quarterly staff meetings explaining how much the revenue has gone up and how well Medpace is doing, yet none of this is reflected in the bonuses or merit increases. No matter how much extra work you take on and do, they will not reward you for it. If I were on the sponsor side, I would not work with this company simply because each employee is thrown in the fire and taking on so much work that they are unable to dedicate the appropriate amount of time for each sponsor. They fire people just to hire onboarding employees for half the salary which isn't even livable in today's economy. Absolutely zero job security at this place. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this company who couldn't give a single care about those they employ.
