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      Parexel

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      Parexel reviews

      3.8

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (3,850 total reviews)
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      Peyton Howell

      76% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,850 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
      Feb 1, 2013

      Okay, however....

      Cra
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      PXL has state of the art technology to perform your job more efficiently, good communication network and organized. They have acquired and/or merged with other CROs to grow to about 11k employess.

      Cons

      For my situation as a CRA there was not a quality of life balance, once you leave it takes months to close out outstanding expense reports, unrealistic travel expectations and metrics. Quality issues with monitoring often slipped through the cracks. Managers seem to be too intimidated to give you honest feedback in favor of playing games with site assignment and offerring more training, with hopes the performance issue will improve.

      2.0
      Aug 23, 2012

      Promises made, but not kept.

      Clinical research associate ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salary is pretty competitive (if you like working 40+ OT every two weeks).

      Cons

      No support from management or HR. PXL allows sponsors to dictate deviations from PXL SOPs (it's not going to be pretty when an audit occurs and it is found that FDA/GCP/ICH guidelines haven't been followed only to appease foreign Pharma companies). Productivity metrics can not be met with all of the other "expectations" (in the interview process and new hire training it was presented that these roles would be taken over by the "in-house" CRAs e.g. constant site contacts, site payment issues, collection of SRP documents, updates to internal tracking systems). Unfortunate that the CRAs are the only ones held responsible when it comes to light that stated time lines aren't being met. In interview 60-65% travel is stated; don't believe it. Of course you can play the role of 3 people! Again, no support.

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