The Emmes Group reviews

Underpaid by a wide margin - salary bands have not budged much in /years/ and are already below market average. No career advancement - employees get stuck in the same low pay band for years because there is no advancement opportunities besides the dull rinse/repeat cycle of the same tasks on different projects unless you wait up to a decade to maybe be made a Project Manager. Most DMs stay for no more than 2-4 years before realizing their career and pay has stalled for the foreseeable future. No standardization of work and non descriptive job title - this leads to different people doing different levels of work on different projects being called the same thing and paid the same. A Data Manager could be expected to be a Business Analyst, Database Manager, Admin Coordinator, a Clinical Monitor, deputy SAS programmer, Protocol Expert, a Systems Analyst, a Data Analyst with people skills enough to deal with stakeholders and sites and required to provide corporate contributions in the span of a project's life but the title and pay remain basic and low. Corporate is detached and HR is absentee. Despite numerous complaints for as long as this Glassdoor page has been active regarding pay, lack of paid maternity leave (or paternity leave), only 1 additional floating holiday after 10 years served for PTO, and a poor method of annual reviews, the script remains the same. Bonuses for most were slashed last year and they declined to give us off on Dec 24th and 26th for the first time in recent memory. We've taken a bunch of different surveys and almost never heard the results or what happens with them. Due to this lack of employee investment company wide coupled with the poor DM conditions, we've lost DMs faster than we could replace them and current DMs are constantly training new ones. If the strategy was not to invest in DM longevity due to their replaceability, that strategy is quickly becoming unsustainable in a tight market with DC and VA competition. TLDR; If you want a job that pays like it's 2019 and has a career path, don't look here.

The drive for being an AI enabled CRO means other needs get ignored or deprioritized. Absolutely AI is the next big advancement in technology however resources are disproportionately put into shiny new AI initiatives when other, less "exciting" areas get ignored. The message relayed to current employees was if you don't know AI, you're out. Given their willingness to layoff people that message should be taken seriously. It's so short sighted because the CRO business cannot operate by AI alone. There's little appreciation for the science and clinical technology needs for running a clinical trial. There's a lot of arrogance in the new leadership. Lower levels of the organization know so much but there's little interest in receiving that information up the chain. They brought in preconceived notions of what they wanted to achieve with little regard for the knowledge and experience the organization already has. The split of Emmes (CRO) and Veridix AI has been a huge disappointment.