Parexel reviews

The workload is ridiculous. The company takes on more contracts than they have manpower for. The expectations for new employees who have no experience in this field are beyond unreasonable. It is a sink or swim environment. They assume if you are intelligent (based on your resume) you can figure everything out for yourself. This is all well and good except there are deadlines, angry clients, etc. and you don't really have the luxury of time. I essentially received no training. If you are intelligent and hardworking you will pick it up eventually, but be prepared to suffer the anxiety for about a year on your own. To top it all off, the pay is insultingly low. If you are right out of college, you will get good experience, but it will come at a price - your sanity. Stay long enough to learn what you can, then get out.

What a joke this place is. They sell services for huge dollars and pay the worker bees a pittance. The services they sell are usually pretty ad hoc, out dated, and labor intensive ( i.e. INEFFICIENT) on behalf of the employee ( at least in Imaging it is). Overtime is expected without any extra pay or recognition...but you do get crappy, supermarket cake once a month ( the IRA managers really seem to think this is a great benefit! Career development is nil, the experience you gain is barely transferable anywhere else...and dont expect a mentor in your supervisor, odds are, you are more educated than he is) Promotion is ridiculous; basically the biggest butt kisser who is willing to act like a trained monkey that plugs away making .img files all day without complaint or expectation of stimulating work, is the one who is going to get promoted. Rampant favoritism for the ones who arent willing to rock any boats and actually improve the company. But how can you improve the company when most of the supervisors are less educated/intelligent/scientifically and technically knowledgeable than their employees? The funny thing is, the management seems to actually believe that they are providing novel, state of the art services. The pay wouldnt be such an insult if they actually compensated for overtime....since its so expected.