Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,840 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

78% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,840 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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1.0
Sep 20, 2016

Worst company ever

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Pros

Good benefits and name recognition

Cons

Everything else, mean people, terrible teams, mgmt is almost cruel in how they talk to employees.

1.0
Aug 26, 2016

Generally terrible company to work for

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Pros

Management culture allows complete troglodytes to thrive, collecting a salary without doing any work whatsoever. This, however, is only a pro if you were born without a brain, and have no self-driven initiative to improve yourself or the company that you work for. Specifically, this occurs due an inability on the part of management to assess the quality of quantity of the work done by their employees. I believe this is largely due to a lack of frontal lobe development, which is again selected for by each tier of management being run in a self-consistent way, in which the upper management cannot judge the qualities of those below them, and instead attempts to blindly string along the lowest bidders for each role. This is accomplished by promising an endless string of raises, and even back-pay (though of-course not in writing) such that only those who are either gullible enough, or who are willing to accept a lower salary then the industry standards because they know their work is sub-par, still believe the scheming after a year or two, and all others have become wise enough to leave for a better job opportunity.

Cons

Parexel is a bureaucracy, not a meritocracy. If you a capable individual, above the curve, Parexel is not for you. The ecosystem composed by individuals at Parexel is constantly changing. A good company will boast that the average employee has been there some 10+ years, people choose to stay with the company, and the company does a good job of pre-screening for good people and cultivating talent. This is not the case at Parexel, where the aforementioned management technique of hiring at sub-standard wages, followed by stringing people along with empty promises until they become wise enough to leave, means that you will see many people come and go, and you will never have the pleasure of working with a well-trained and competent set of people. The smarter and more hard working the individual is, the more quickly they will leave.

1.0
Jun 27, 2016

Senior Director

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the project management staff are well trained, particularly in the traditional service areas such as monitoring, biostats, medical writing, etc.

Cons

Management team is very weak, particularly in the commercial segment. The company has a difficult time winning business in their own backyard and is infamous for their junior-level project managers.

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