IQVIA reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(15,274 total reviews)
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Ari Bousbib

76% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

IQVIA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 15,274 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IQVIA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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15K reviews
2.0
Feb 4, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Smart, competent colleagues -Interesting projects & clients -Good training for entry-level consultants -Good exposure to how pharma/life science companies operate

Cons

Difficult to set boundaries while working from home & often felt overworked/burnt out. Mentors explained that the multiple busy weeks + Saturdays of working in a row were just part of the ebb & flow of the job, but I always felt like they could have been eased had the company just hired more people to do the work. If you are someone who thrives on being a workaholic, you would probably like it.

3.0
Dec 2, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to get your career started and pick up lots of skills with a sharp learning curve under lots of patience. The expectation that you'll start of slow is set early on and the focus is on doing things right and well so that you're self-sufficient and skilled in the future. It's a really good place to develop the drive to be an analytical and thinker in the working world with lots of transferable skills. -Average compensation for the role -Understanding and kind coworkers -Interesting People -Flexibility in throughout the day for appointments/obligations

Cons

Don't stay too long or you'll grow resentful. Not only is big pharma a boring and terrible industry to work for, the upper management is passively toxic in terms of how they manage their people/resources. This is consulting and the profit margins and client happiness matters after all, but I didn't expect it to be this bad. All my projects start off the same, with a reasonable scope and timeline written on paper and it sounds like I'll finally get a reprieve from my long hours and high pressure. Then we speak to the client on week one and they want everything expedited and more than was initially agreed. The fire starts to burn then and everything is done sloppily and we crawl across the finish line. The next project comes along for the same client and they have to drudge through the mess we made in our haste causing additional hours for both teams. Project managers are typically spineless and don't push back on clients, they much rather please the client and burn their junior staff. With a polite tone, they'll reject any suggestions from junior staff and are so unaware of the burden they're putting on us. -Long hours -Boring repetitive projects -Unmotivating to work for big pharma -Unrealistic and delusional timelines

1.0
Nov 9, 2021

Leadership needs a people managing course asap

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work options and remote is available to all

Cons

Leadership is terrible. Leaders cannot carry a team below them. The recent leaders appointed have no people managing skills and are unaware as to why people are departing. This company needs help ASAP

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