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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,829 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 3,829 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
Apr 24, 2014

Good working experience.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are flexible and have good benefits.

Cons

Slow promotions for some positions.

4.0
Apr 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to work starting out. You get a lot of exposure to a lot of clients and techniques. If you do a good job you are quick to recieve a lot of autonomy

Cons

A lot of staff gets burned out, but if you outperform in high stress/understaffed conditions, you will grow quickly and be given a lot of opportunity (if under a good manager).

1.0
Apr 22, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Gives you a good sense of what a terrible company is like and what company to avoid in the future. It's a decent place to network with people who've left the company for much better opportunities.

Cons

To paraphrase the venerable words of a departed supervisor "Contrary to the old adage that life is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer panic -- life in PPD is like long stretches of panic that is rarely interrupted by moments of boredom". Such is the life at a company that 1) Overworks its staff-- assigning work at above capacity leading to burn-out. 2) Pays little for a technically demanding job (starting at 14$ an hour folks) with 2% "raises" every year (which is about the rate of inflation). 3) Many poor managers who aren't suited for the job, and suffer little to no consequences for poor management. It's no wonder that PPD suffers from terribly low employee morale, depressing work environment and massively high turnover rates (as high as 40% in some departments). The few decent managers are left trying to desperately replace the constant losses and suffering the consequences. The company is a haven for short-sighted policies that doesn't mind trading in their organs for a couple extra dollars.

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