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3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(562 total reviews)

Peter Benton, MBA

63% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Worldwide Clinical Trials has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 562 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Worldwide Clinical Trials 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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562 reviews
1.0
Jul 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent Salary. Good systems. Easy interview process.

Cons

I've worked here for a few months. While many things are good as far as CROs go, DO NOT come here unless you want to feel POLICED and micromanaged. During my first week of employment, I was told that upper management "requested" and "recommended" that all employees have a publicly visible Linkedin profile listing Worldwide as our current employer.... which is a wildly inappropriate thing to require. What's worse, three weeks later, i received an email "reminding" me that I hadn't updated my Linkedin page. This email CAME FROM HR... apparently they CHECK to make sure that new employees comply in their roles as "Brand Ambassadors"!! I expressed to my manager that i didn't like having my profile visible because I've been harassed in the past. She told me that she understood but that i should look past this in the interest of promoting Worldwide culture. HUH? When i finally updated my profile and made it public due to fear of retaliation, I was told that (a) i needed to add to the profile the headshot I'm required to have posted on our internal website (GREAT idea given my history of being harassed), and (b) I needed to remove my Linkedin profile background because the LGBT pride background on my profile was in violation of the company expectation that we not post anything "political" on any social media accounts indicating affiliation with Worldwide! When I discussed this with my manager, she condescendingly told me that having the profile was merely "recommended"... this, after HR actually checked to make sure I had followed said recommendation! When I removed public visibility from my profile as a result, I immediately became the victim of numerous microaggressions and heavy surveillance courtesy of ClinOps mangement! Apparently someone sits around and checks all day to see that employees keep their profiles visible...???? As a cherry on top, I was also asked, as a "best practice" during onboarding, to post a positive review on Glassdoor regarding the company's "extraordinary" onboarding experience! Well, Worldwide, here you go!! LOL. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be here long, and I am considering a formal discrimination complaint.

4.0
Jul 10, 2017

A Good Solid Company

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have been at Worldwide for about 4 months. Prior to that I worked for a small boutique monitoring company. I was there for ten years, loved my job, loved the work, the diversity of study disciplines and working both drug and device trials. I traveled throughout North America and Western Europe. But, work became scarce for a while, and I needed a steady income for my family. Enter, WCT. They offered a great salary, they are small enough that you’re not just another CRA, and I’m lucky enough to have a great manager. Yes, they come with multiple layers of management, multiple and redundant processes, and way more in-the-office time than is sometimes necessary. But overall they are a really good company. In the last year they have renewed their commitment to quality, their staff, and their product. I believe that the top line management has a sincere desire to take this company to a best in class example of the value that a CRO can bring to the sponsor. The only complaint that I have at this point is that I was not assigned to the study discipline that I was being recruited for. There is still a bit of a disconnect between the resourcing staff and the study management staff. If you want to work for a CRO, have good solid CRA experience, and high standards, you should consider Worldwide Clinical Trials.

Cons

As noted previously above, very few cons

1.0
Mar 30, 2017

Great place to work if you're a white man!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A paycheck - although a smaller one if you're a woman or a minority, but you'll get used to that cuz 'Murica. Another plus is that you get to say whatever you want about female CRAs, and can call them "b's" and "divas" even if you're in management - right on!

Cons

Top management says that WCT cares about employee satisfaction and doing things right the first time and that these are priorities to them. And to back that up they do absolutely nothing to address slacker bosses who make the same mistakes over and over. They also do nothing to address serious complaints from employees. Hoorah for fake goals!

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