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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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4K reviews
2.0
Jan 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good PTO, flexible hours, free coffee, decent work life balance.

Cons

Far less pay than industry average, less than COLA "raises," infrequent promotions to anyone outside of management, cut of fringe benefits and increase in insurances. Company promises promotion but fails to delivery at yearly cycles. Nothing is merit based, only tenure.

1.0
Jul 28, 2017

Research scientist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people that work with the teams and clients.

Cons

Executive level do not engage the people. They hold Town Hall Meetings spouting how successful we are but then hand out raises that are less then 2%.

2.0
Sep 20, 2014

Private equity sale is ruining a once-great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pros are: -- Still a big name in the CRO industry -- Lots of history -- Good "work from home" policy very much depending on your group

Cons

--Less pay than other CROs --Works its employees to the bone, and then some --Worse employee morale than at any point in the past decade --People in general no longer feel loyalty or pride in working for PPD, as it is obvious over the past 2-3 years that "PPD" is truly about nothing but "more money, faster". No one thought that it could possibly be worse to be owned by private equity than it was to be 'owned' by the quarterly results and the stock market....but we were all wrong.

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