IQVIA reviews

The "consulting" group is a banana stand primed and ready to go up in flames. If you have another offer, take it. If you don't have another offer, don't be a complacent buffoon and look for one (unless you are adept at living with regrets). The litany of problems this so-called advisory group suffers from is too onerous to comprehensively dictate here, but here is the highlight reel of their greatest failures: 1) "Leadership" team is a rag-tag group of mediocre white collar industry washouts. They have no vision (zero idea of what is relevant for business leaders in this day and age), an unclear line of sight into clients' most pressing problems (leading to a Neanderthal-like "guess and check" approach to business development), minimal experience actually planning and executing against the "advisory" work they purport to deliver (leading to the peddling of half-baked pipe dreams in futile attempts at responses to RFPs), terrible "go-to-market" strategies (if you call the "shot-gun" approach a business strategy), poor client relationship develop skills (principals and VPs lack empathy, charisma and fail to build trust). 2) Project work is sold at rock-bottom prices and thus run lean, with very inexperienced, young 20-year old "engagement managers" grappling to throw together anything offering real value to clients. "Lord of the flies" project teams offer little in terms of professional development (babies managing babies), mentorship, or coaching. For young professionals looking to diversify their skill sets and build any depth in strategic consulting work, outlook is grim. Majority of projects are either canned pricing and market access "glorified telemarket research" or horrendously banal staff augmentation gigs (e.g. SOP development, writing protocols or manuals, project management / administration) that any cogent "consultant" wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole. 3) Majority of those promoted are not the "best and brightest" but a hodge-podge of politicking brown-nosers (leadership team welcomes boot-looking and actively tries to shut down anyone vocalizing any iota of dissent), lifers who clearly lack understanding of how the external market works (and have to come to accept the toxic chaos of the firm as norms), and self-righteous, self-congratulatory "yes men and women" who pat themselves on the back for what they misconstrue as talent and at best savvy "political" skills. 4) Utterly unethical and ruthless human resources department led by a "global director" that is utterly ineffective and retaliative toward employees who raise concerns about any number of the aforementioned horrific problems that has plagued the firm since 2014. This is just the beginning - expect a very slow, very disorganized, very non-transparent "integration" as the two Quintiles and IMS advisory practices continue to unsuccessfully attempt to merge. Approaching a year into talks of an acquisition, they are still functioning independently under a facade of a united name while a "Game of Thrones" like brouhaha festers behind closed office doors. Meanwhile, they continue to hand out Kool-Aid to both university recruits and experienced hires alike. Don't take the bait.