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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,828 total reviews)
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Marc Casper

82% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

PPD has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,828 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPD 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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4K reviews
4.0
Feb 14, 2017

Project Manager Labs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great Management support within PPD

Cons

VERY HIGH workload, no work life balance

3.0
Feb 13, 2017

Programming Team Leader

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good people. Good benefits. Fair pay.

Cons

Long hours. Constant change in how your job is done.

2.0
Feb 9, 2017

Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Consistently hires great people for the department. Good PTO accrual and paid holidays are good (no sick time). Decent health benefits. Department leadership is good.

Cons

Department leadership is hampered by the policies from Sr mgmt. Too many unrealistic expectations for workload and deadlines. PPD always has to hire new people for the department because of burn out and lack of competitive salaries. Retention is not a focus and the company seems to be happy to be on a merry-go-round of new hires. We never get people from other companies - they let us hire them, train them, give them experience and then cherry-pick out of our ranks with recruitment by our former employees who now work with competitors. Work/life balance is a joke because we're always hiring in our department and it takes the new people several months before they can do more than rudimentary work.

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