Avoid this company like the plague - Associate Consultant IQVIA Employee Review

1.0
Jul 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

IQVIA looks good on a resume for when you inevitably leave.

Cons

-Absolutely no work-life balance, be prepared to work 65 hour weeks of high stress work with peaks up to 80 hours. -This is not consulting, it's a market research firm vailed as strategy. -Moving up the ladder at IQVIA is completely political. -The consulting practice is completely understaffed, but principals continue to sell work with no real plans to remedy this issue. -Upper management is completely uninterested in the work after they sell, so don't expect any collaboration or meaningful knowledge transfer. -Project managers are rude, self-absorbed, play favorites, and couldn't care less how much work they put on your plate, or if that work is even necessary to the project. -Turnover is higher than I could have ever imagined. The consulting practice is around 500 employees and 6-8 people leave each month, with maybe 1-2 new hires coming in each month. Despite this, as mentioned above, seniors continue to sell work driving up hours and reducing the quality of the work.

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5.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great work / life balance, leadership wonderful dependent on team, collaborative coworkers, everyone try to help each other

Cons

- internal processes too long, hard to progress career if you are not loyal to certain leaders, sometimes we get in our own way to service our customers, internal bottlenecks between sales and delivery at times. If you are someone who likes to follow processes this is a good place, if you are someone who thinks outside of the box and pushes the envelope of change for betterment or more efficiency - you could be frustrated

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