Parexel reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(3,847 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

76% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,847 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Parexel 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
3.0
Apr 6, 2014

Chaos at best…

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, stocks, people, location, gain experience

Cons

Too top heavy, a lot of people within higher management/director levels that are unaware of day to day operations

1.0
Apr 3, 2014

You are on your own

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Young and unexperienced people working in a rapidly changing environment. You would think that new ideas could be accepted. I don't find many pros.

Cons

Lack of process: process are not clear and are in fact burocratic. To get something done in a timely manner is hard (i.e: reimbursments or having a business card done could take a month or more). Intermediate management is not committed to their work so you are on your own to solve problems the best you can. Good luck! The moto: "Own the problem and the solution" is a lie. Be very careful about it. It is tricky. They hire unexperienced people who doesn't know a thing about the buisness. Work overload. No readjustments to the salary. Regarding carreer expectations: in internal candidates, they prioritize only those that has exactly the same profile than the required by the client: i.e: if the external candidate and you have the same profile, only this way they will choose you. Otherwise, it is impossible to change positions. Lack of planning in the long term. You will have to work extra hours to find solutions to many things that could be prevented (i.e: getting short of concomitant medications in a country and withholding recruitment due to that situation)

3.0
Apr 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary. Ability to work remotely.

Cons

Too much work assigned to individuals and not enough hours in the day to get anything done. Being pulled from one meeting to another in terms of pleasing a client to internal meetings associated with providing mandated updates on a too frequent basis. They work you very hard here - the work/life balance is non-existent. Minimal training in place that is effective at upper levels.

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