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      PPD

      Acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific

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      PPD reviews

      3.9

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (3,828 total reviews)
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      Marc Casper

      82% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      PPD has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,828 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
      1.0
      May 31, 2018

      Global company but small-minded leadership

      Specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay. Some offices have decent views.

      Cons

      Toxic culture of blame and back-stabbing. "Leadership" is sexist, racist privileged white males with over-inflated egos prone to temper tantrums. Very unprofessional.

      3.0
      Dec 28, 2017

      Clinical team manager

      Principal clinical team manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility, work remotely, good compensation, good vacation time

      Cons

      Employees get caught between Client expectations that are out of scope and PPD’s unwillingness to acknowledge the time and service required to get the job done, ever changing systems, complex resource/ finance mgt system for projects

      4.0
      Dec 8, 2017

      A foot in the door

      Senior scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      PPD was my first job out of school, and the management in the group I landed in was phenomenal (the Biopharmaceutical group in Middleton WI). It's a big company, so your mileage may vary. For me, there were ample opportunities for mentorship and I quickly learned the pharmaceutical industry. Management in my group genuinely cared about their reports. They were also very organized, effective, and good at collaborating with other functions. All of these traits made working there a pleasure. There were a lot of other fresh graduates and the group as a whole was very social and outgoing, which was fun.

      Cons

      Compensation is dismally low. After about a year I accepted an offer at another company for 1.9 times my salary at PPD. This is not atypical for the CRO industry, but being able to double your salary by jumping ship as soon as you have some experience makes it very difficult to justify staying longer than a year or two. HR tightly controls compensation, so there is very little your manager can do for you. With the high turnover rate you can get promoted fast, but your raise in pay will still be laughable compared to the bump you could get by taking a job at a big pharma company. All things considered, the pay is on-par with a post-doctoral position and the experience may be more relevant if you want to go into industry, so I would still recommend the job to new graduates who don't have any other offers.

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