IQVIA reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(15,273 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 15,273 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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2.0
Sep 19, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Learning opportunities due to increasing workload - resume builder. Process changes are good to know and have experience with but it's increasingly obvious it is ONLY about the bottom line. Big company - name recognition.

Cons

Increasing workload prevents healthy work-life balance and low morale is spreading. Minimal merit increases per year - mgmt continually cites that Quintiles' salaries are higher than competitors. Rating system is changing towards an orientation to lower ratings for everyone - gives the impression that it really doesn't matter how well you do throughout the year. Obvious orientation towards outsourcing to lower cost regions - seems to be no concern about losing some great talent in lay-offs. Low moral seems to be spreading - people at various levels are stressed and overloaded. Seems to be too many managers/levels of mgmt and Senior Mgmt appears to be completely out of touch with what's going on 'on the ground.' Lower-level mgmt is helpful as much as they can be but they have increasing inability to make final decisions at their level.

2.0
Aug 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

One of the top CROs worldwide. Pretty much all therapeutic areas.

Cons

High stess level as a CRA. All that counts is achiving your metrics goals! Honestly the visit goal is crazy. Kiss your personal life bye-bye. Salary is rather low in the industry. Turnover rate is extremely high in the CRA area.

1.0
Jul 22, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job. Pays the bills. You won't get bored because you will be overloaded with demands from every direction.

Cons

Expectations for CRAs are insane. Lots of protocols, lots of sites, lots of meetings, lots of non billable work assignments that take up a large proportion of your time. You can de-prioritize the non billable stuff, but it will count against you when you don't meet the deadline for...completion of Amgen character-building integrity learning modules, just as an example. One night I actually counted- I received 200 emails during the day- one day-, and about half of them required an actionable response. Just accept the fact that you will be in a no-win situation while you are employed here, and put your resume out. Get out before you are too burnt to look for other employment.

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