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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,829 total reviews)
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Marc Casper

82% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

PPD has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,829 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPD 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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4K reviews
3.0
Jun 28, 2016

SIA

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers. The training is good and can get some great exposure.

Cons

Slow progression within the company. Managers are over tasks and in turn fall short with their ability to actually manage teams. The workload is heavy and blurs heavily into work life balance.

2.0
Jun 25, 2016

Sr. CRA II

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good line manager. Good health benefits (low premium, no deductible).

Cons

Expect CRAs to travel more (10-12 days on-site) and work more (lengthy MVRs 20+ pages with highly detailed annotated report, in a CTMS system) than other CROs. Atmosphere is negative and discouraging for CRAs. Morale is bad. Even lateral career moves for CRAs are discouraged. Some team and project management employs a 'pins and needles' attitude about how pleased the sponsor may be with CRA and CRO performance. Micromanaging but 'green' Team Manager.

1.0
Jun 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting projects. Good salary, possibility to work at home.

Cons

No work-life balance at all. I work more than full time (1.5 FTE) for a couple of months as some projects seem to be prepared in rush and bad design results in lots of issues. Still upper management is focused on your billability and metrics. No career prospects. High deficiency of resources in clinical management (project assistants, CRAs).

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