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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4K reviews
3.0
Sep 8, 2013

Able to work from home a plus

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I have been working from home for 3+ years. It's great when you have kids in Elementry aged kids. But the decentralized community can feel isolating. Hard to advance at PXL. They prefer to reward the folks in South Africa, rather than US workers, it's cheaper to employee in SA, rather than in the US. My LM in SA, works crazy hours.

Cons

Hard to advance, pay is not great.

2.0
Sep 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to gain experience in a CRO environment. work from home is an option if your manager likes to work from home. Easy to fly under the radar unless you get mixed up in the strong political pull. Decent training opportunities and fast promotions if you are friends with the right upper management folks.

Cons

Politics completely control major decisions. If you are unfortunate enough to butt heads with your manager or PM, you will be treated unfairly and most likely end up pushed to quit before they fire you for some ridiculous reason. Bullying is a big issue at this company. Some employees are allowed to come and go as they please and do minimal work while others are strictly watched and must adhere to rules as if they are enforced by the whole company. If you are not friends with the right upper management team members, you will not move up. Work integrity, education and performance reviews are not an influence in decisions to promote. Very low morale due to poor management and corporate politics.

2.0
Sep 3, 2013

Get experience and find a better job

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good experience working in multicultural global company

Cons

High pressure, low salary, poor career prospectives

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