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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

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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2.0
Sep 21, 2014

Layoffs everywhere!

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Pros

Good place to pick up some experience to get your foot in the door. Flexible hours and liberal work from home opportunities.

Cons

Job security is practically non-existent and morale is terrible. Management has been off-shoring jobs to India and the Philippines for almost a year. The analogy of "rats off a sinking ship" comes to mind, nearly every employee in my department is desperately looking for another job before another round of layoffs is announced. Very scary times at this company!

2.0
Aug 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Able to attract some good talent, some have English communication issues.

Cons

Need to be careful of coworkers, managers, and making promises Blaming and office politics can be very bad. Management can be very ruthless with employees and consultants. Don't expect any real training. Some managers are not qualified to hold their positions.

3.0
Aug 19, 2014

Data Management

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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.

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