Good for early industry experience but overall a very negative working environment. - Anonymous employee IQVIA Employee Review

The attitude of upper management and the way staff (especially junior staff) are treated at this company is absolutely unacceptable. The extent of the managerial incompetence I witnessed and the sheer level of blatant bulling by senior staff members is disgraceful and I would encourage avoiding this company at all costs. I worked in multiple departments in more than one country while at IQVIA and this deplorable attitude seems to be part of the general company culture throughout. I would say I personally experienced or was witness to multiple cases of genuine workplace harassment by senior staff and no amount of complaints to HR went anywhere. Most of the staff in HR were friends with the managers we were complaining about; favouritism/nepotism is rampant!! Junior staff were constantly put down and managers took no accountability for poor team performance - they would publicly throw their staff under the bus before they would ever own up to their own mistakes. Sexism was also a big problem in one department I worked in while at IQVIA and one of the male directors would often make derogatory comments about female staff and their choice of clothes in front of the entire office. Anyone who was underperforming (mainly because they were desperately overworked) would be publicly shamed at team meetings. Benefits would be withheld from the entire team and this would be blamed on that one persons mistake, isolating them and creating an atmosphere where staff were so afraid to make even simple human errors. Pay rises were virtually non existent and don’t expect any kind of work-life balance; junior staff generally work all hours for no overtime while managers leave early. They think the occasional free lunch can fix everything and god help you if you try to go over their heads to complain about poor treatment because they will make your life hell!! Fear-mongering was a common tactic employed by senior staff and they would frequently tell us that other members of the team had complained about something we said/wore/did but would not tell you who it was, so everyone was constantly paranoid and there was no trust on the team at all. You could say nothing in confidence to your manager, it would always get back to the rest of the office. The volume of staff turnover at this company is truly shocking but it is a reflection of just how poorly they treat their staff. Staff members having what I can only describe as mental breakdowns while at the office was a common occurrence in every department I worked at. Confidential employee information being used as gossip amongst senior staff was also not uncommon and there was a general lack of support for the chronically overworked and underpaid junior staff. I left this company with an extremely negative outlook on the clinical research industry as a whole and for this reason I decided to make a career change. I have since moved to a different area of the healthcare sector and to a company that actually treats their employees like human beings and I have never been happier. I am not one to leave scathing reviews like this but this was genuinely the worst place I have ever worked and I was horrified by the way myself and my colleagues were treated. I would avoid working here at all costs unless you are at a very senior level and can stomach turning a blind eye to the awful way staff are treated!!!