Not a good place to learn if you are just starting your career - Anonymous employee Parexel Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits Wonderful co-workers (depends on your department)

Cons

low pay no training (all you do is read SOPs when you first start out) no career development (they ask you to indicate what trainings you would like to take to enhance job performance and absolutely no strides are made to get you this training) No structure or set procedures (everyone just does their own thing and there is no consistency between people performing the same tasks) Upper management has absolutely no clue as to what goes on with the actual employees who do the work. They just make these stupid decisions and changes and then everything falls apart. Then abruptly things are changed again and it's the same vicious cycle over and over again. They re-brand more times than I can count. There are way too many VPs at the moment. I completely lost track. Upper management people leave the company and come back a few months later as VP of this or that. I could go on and on seriously. If you are looking for a job where you can grow professionally look elsewhere because all you will get from parexel is bad habits that you don't want to take else where.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

Well trained managers that empower you, truly listen to you, and only do well if YOU do well/ they provide resources and definitely offer development opportunities to those who want them AND have demonstrated they can maintain their scoped, regular duties at a high level of quality while working on special development projects Also unlimited RTO in US

Cons

no bonuses and too much focus/emphasis on how many years with *Parexel*, as opposed to how many years total you have been in the industry (ex doing site management at another CRO or Sponsor group )

1.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

The only pro is that they offer remote work.

Cons

I would give zero stars if I could, but since I can’t, I’m forced to give one. They seem to have layoffs almost every year. Their US-based pharmacovigilance team was also affected in 2024 and 2025. It really feels like a hire-and-fire culture.

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