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PPD Clinical Data Associate II reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)
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Marc Casper

59% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Clinical Data Associate II employees have rated PPD with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Clinical Data Associate II professionals have a good working experience there. PPD is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Clinical Data Associate II professionals compared to other employers within the Pharmazeutika & Biotechnologie industry (3.5 stars).

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40 reviews
3.0
Mar 21, 2016
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Pros

Great training program and good opportunity to get into clinical research if you have no previous experience. Lots of great people work here and you can make good connections. Generous paid time off and health benefits.

Cons

Very bad pay, way below market rate. Lots of incompetency and you have to work a lot harder and longer hours because of it. Dysfunctional team dynamics where you can't leave work until the rest of your team no longer needs help. There is always something to do and so you end up spending your whole life at work because some team members are happy to drag out their work and work inefficiently so that they can get paid overtime. The problem with this is that the efficient workers have to pay the price for lazy team members. Some Team Leaders are very competent and others are terrible which reflects poorly on upper management for not having enough insight and skill in choosing correct candidates to fill these roles. Thus, ego gets in the way of admitting fault in poor Team Leader choices which isn't helpful to improve teams and business. Subjects are treated with indignation and disrespect by most team members and are victims of late pay checks and bureaucratic as well as clinical mishaps. The Project Managers with exception of two are completely and shamefully incompetent. They are the laziest of all PPD employees. They are the first to get complacent and too comfortable in their positions and start to slack off. Say goodbye to your life outside of work because you'll be pulling 15 hour shifts with no appreciation and you might work until midnight one night and be scheduled to come in a 6am the next morning. Team Leaders are bad schedulers and do not care a great deal about their teams. My TL once demanded me to drive into work at 5:30am one morning against the weather advisory board due to severe icy road conditions. That morning there were hundreds of car accidents. I risked my life due to a crazy TL with no care about the safety of her team members.

3.0
Aug 19, 2014

Data Management

Recommend
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Pros

PPD looks for hard working people and if you can demonstrate the excellence you can go to the next level in a short period of time. Great PTO benefits, WFH flexibility.

Cons

With the recent outsourcing, there has been some layoff and would be more but management is not transparent communicating the information. Company is more focused on meeting the financial goals and off track on assessing what can work well from the employee AND financial point of view. In order to please clients to get more business, sometimes unrealistic goals are set which puts burden on project team (extended hrs). Resources are available to assist during crunch time but issue is that they are not trained well enough to pick up the task and could compromise quality. High turnover rate in the last few weeks.

2.0
Jul 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Pros include the flexibility, I am able to work from home and have never had an issue when I needed to rearrange my schedule or take off time. The experience and diversity of clients and co-workers is a plus. PPD also has decent facilities and social events.

Cons

Salary is very low compared to other CROs (large and small). Hard work and performance is not rewarded and management is completely out of touch. The biggest con is also the outsourcing they now do with the Philippines, allowing staff in the Wilmington location to be laid off and replaced by much lower paid staff in PHI. PPD has turned into another greedy corporation looking for the cheapest labor and highest return, no matter who they screw over (employees and clients).

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