Medpace reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,512 total reviews)
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August Troendle

22% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Medpace has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,512 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Medpace 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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2K reviews
3.0
Jun 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company is well organized in terms of documentation of their policies and guidelines as well as their processes. Decent training programs for new CRAs.

Cons

There were too many expectations in regards to the number and type of protocols that one could manage. There was somewhat of a disconnect between the core management in terms of administration of personnel and the actual balance/needs of personnel needed for the workload depending on the number and type of clinical trials.

1.0
May 22, 2017

Medpace CRA II

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid Training Program Free Lunch Casual Dress Code Easy to get hired: "I have a bullet point mentality. Very organized. Enthusiastic about accuracy and a fine attention to detail." They eat it up. If you know you want to be a CRA, this is a great place to start. They will pay you a very reasonable amount during your training (about 7 months) while you are contributing basically nothing to the company. Prior experience is not required. Once you are trained, you can stick around for another 6 months or so to really get used to the position, but after that you're likely to find a 10-20 percent raise going to another company. This company sets itself up in a way where you really wanna go there to get trained, but even if you feel like you owe them something for investing in you, it is really hard to want to stay.

Cons

Pay is lower than average, benefits are garbage, pretty shady company in general. To start, everyone who is any good at their job tends to leave 1-2 years in because someone else will pay you about 15 percent more across all most job levels and types. Management refuses to let you work from home even when your job is easily doable from afar. The 401k is interesting because you can get up to 4% match pretty easily, but 0% vested for 3 YEARS. The average life of a CRA there is closer to 15 months, so the vast majority of CRAs will never a dime of their match. Furthermore, they have an interesting credit system that helps CRAs who travel a lot and put in "overtime" get some bonus cash, but you only can paid out for it at the end of January, so if you leave / get laid off before then, you lose everything accrued. Also, during the FLSA transition (From salaried to hourly), even though it didn't end up going through, we were told that our "effort hours" (billable hours to clients) wouldn't line up with our paid hours. Shady as it gets, Medpace was implementing policy that would allow them to bill other companies for work they weren't paying us for. Just use this company to get trained and leave when you are ready. It seems dishonest, but it's hard to feel bad for doing that when they take every measure possible to screw you.

1.0
May 12, 2017

Stay Away

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free lunch, casual dress code, hire inexperienced

Cons

The day I quit will be the best day of my life. They deceive you from the start. As a CRA, you're told training will last 6 months but in reality, it will take 8-10. The worst part is that you learn everything within about 3 months. The other 4-6 months of training will be spent sitting at your desk with absolutely nothing to do, so you will try to look busy just so no one reports you. Once you finally do finish training, they still don't have anything for you to do so they give you "rotations" which is literally just intern work. The company controls you with fear and power. They fire CRAs like crazy. Every single day you fear that it's going to be the day you finally get the axe, so it's hard to concentrate. The only thing I got lucky with is my manager. She is extremely nice. It is definitely very clear, however, that your progress in the company depends on how much your manager likes you. Oh, and I'm getting paid about 10k less than my colleagues who all have the same credentials that I do.

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