Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,835 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

78% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,835 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
1.0
Mar 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Located close. Flexible work schedule

Cons

Too much politics, no real job activities - right people are moving to better companies, due to the highly unprofessional leadership in certain functions at the top If you are not favored you will be overlooked, verbally abused, and used as a convenient excuse when things go wrong - No company culture and behavioral accountability for managers - HR totally absent

2.0
Sep 3, 2014

Low Quality Leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Generous time off accruals. Lower level staff are great and supportive of each other.

Cons

Glendale upper management only recognize degrees. The more prestigious the school, the faster you move up the ladder. No hard work required. All others who sweat it out daily through long hours and have become amazing at their jobs through perseverance are left behind and rarely recognized. I say "rarely" because a blue moon recognition by upper Management will happen if they need something or if they did something wrong. The place is broken. The only reason it keeps running is by the hard-working non-prestigious degrees, no degree, dedicated staff who need their jobs to take care of their families. Morale is at an all time low and sadly, no one cares. Local HR is controlled by upper management and corrupted by politics. So much talk about following company processes, but HR allows upper Management to go around them. Recently promoted Directors and Managers have little to no experience in the teams they are tasked to lead. Staff are teaching them what to do. How is this ok? Another lawsuit is just waiting to happen.

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