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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4K reviews
5.0
Jun 6, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Well-established company with processes in place Fantastic training systems Straight forward honest communicators

Cons

I wish I would have started here earlier!

2.0
Mar 13, 2018

PAREXEL has a serious employee culture problem

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Open to hiring and training employees from different industries/backgrounds, which enables employees to pivot and obtain experience they may not have otherwise gained - "Reasonable" salary (nothing to write home about, but enough to pay middle-class-Greater Boston-adjusted bills) - Decent vacation - Decent health benefits - Majority of co-workers (not senior management) are very kind and will not throw you under the bus - Many senior managers are very smart and employees can learn a lot from them

Cons

- Very little respect or accommodations for parents/families; especially fathers - No corporate culture (I never realized how important corporate culture was until I worked at PAREXEL, where it is seriously lacking) - [In certain groups] little respect for work from home flexibility; even for jobs where employees work alone/behind a screen all day and have no face-to-face contact with their co-workers - CEO doesn't appear to truly appreciate women's contributions; there is a hint of an early 80s men's club hangover. Ever hear the story about the senior manager who wondered where all the good secretaries went? And his subordinate comments that they are now associate/contributor level employees? It's like that. A fair number of seniors managers appears to think that women are a novelty, except for a chosen few. There is very little top down communication, especially with regard to triaging projects. An assignment will "blow-up" and senior management will start to pay attention to it, without informing the staff actually working on the matter. Then that staff hears after the fact that Senior Manager So and So is really mad and the "heat is on". PAREXEL has an employee problem. Line managers expect one employee to do the job of five (absolutely insane, unreasonable workload) and then punish that employee/passive-aggressively suggest that employee is inadequate for a failure to meet deadlines. The "company first, people second" attitude is real and pervasive throughout the organization -- it quickly leads to burn out, resentment, and inevitable departure.

2.0
Nov 30, 2017

Reimbursement

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has enough work.

Cons

I left Parexel in August 2017. I expensed a car rental for 3 days trip in May 2017. I was sent an email in October 2017 that it was not reimburse. When I replied to the email from Parexel there was no further communication until I received a bill from American Express corporate card. This amount should have been billed and paid by the sponsor.

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