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Associate Scientist - Associate Scientist PPD Employee Review

3.0
Oct 12, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Comradery between employees of similar level. -Good location . -Well established if you're looking for someone to tell you exactly what to do and how to do it.

Cons

-Poor salary compared to similar companies in the area. -High turnover in all levels of employment (on my 4th supervisor in 12 months). -Little to no flexibility. -Middle management rarely takes concerns seriously or voices them to upper management. -Abysmal response to COVID-19 (transitioned from assigned desks to hot-desking, no mask requirement for months, the PPD branded masks are a joke). -No effort put into identifying waste using project management tools like LEAN or 6-sigma. Middle management would rather just tell employees to work faster without compromising quality. -Unrealistic turn around time requirements made up by upper management when the clients had no say in what they are happy with. -The bar for getting fired or put on performance improvement is so high that bad/toxic analysts never leave or get re-trained which means good analysts are always picking up after them/spending hours fixing their mistakes, causing good analysts to leave the company.

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5.0
Dec 10, 2025
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Provided health insurance. Good coworkers Good exposure to team at client site If you have a good technical lead, the job can be great!

Cons

You have 2 bosses (Technical lead from Client Site) and your PPD boss. PPD Boss does not know what is going on If you have a bad technical lead, your life can be miserable. Pay is low No protection from abusive technical lead (coworkers on same team can have a drastically different experience)

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