Parexel reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(3,845 total reviews)
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Peyton Howell

77% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Parexel has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 3,845 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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3.0
Jul 17, 2017

Data Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great Benefits, Competitive Salary, No micro management, flexible with schedules, good people. Managers are good at listening and helping with work-life balance but it depends on the manager you get.

Cons

Turn over is high because of the layoffs. As they layoff, work is doubled but not compensated for the work. Processes and policies are cumbersome and confusing (not straight forward). They're good at training but once on the study, there are too many exceptions that don't align with training. Teams can be challenging to work with as there are too many lead chefs in the kitchen so to speak. Because there are too many chefs, many will attempt to boss you, leading to several people being mean and disrespectful to one another, even the Sponsors were nicer and more pleasant to work with.

3.0
Jun 22, 2017

Room for Improvement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the week long Project Leader training/on-boarding was very well done. great information but a lot of it all at once. great management support when needed. they do come out of the woodwork to assist with your questions.

Cons

extremely lean as far as resourcing. chronically understaffed in study support which has domino affect on study. no staff available for back-fills. PAREXEL is currently going through an entire company shift of how studies will be tracked for profitability. going from the study multiple to % complete. a lot of changes coming with new systems, processes, forms, etc. and now with the new "investors" a whole new board of directors. not sure if that's good or bad....

1.0
Jun 5, 2017

Company claims to be transparent but not

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary but no raises.

Cons

More layoffs. Trying to get people to move to ExecuPharm without giving information.

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