Syneos Health reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(3,919 total reviews)

Costa Panagos

66% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Syneos Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,919 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Syneos Health 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
Apr 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- New Building - On-site Cafe - Collaborative workspace cubicle design ONLY

Cons

- Even though the cubicles and offices are designed for collaborative work, management consistently deters social interactions in the break areas - whether friendly or professional. - Management (legacy-INC) sees everyone as a number and makes every attempt to micro-manages work time. - The 'trusted process' model is a regurgitation of existing industry Common Knowledge - nothing special! - A good portion of the contracts awarded consists of tasks that major players in the industry would never touch. - The culture is legacy-INC (Syneos is an INC Research company)... again, do your research!!! - There is NO career growth unless your in the right click; promotions are not based on performance reviesw or your contributions to the organization. - High turnover continues to be an issue for the company. - Lots of recently promoted under-qualified associate directors - these people were obviously in the right click.

1.0
Mar 23, 2019

chaotic and dishonest CRO

Recommend
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Pros

you get a nice back pack at Onboarding

Cons

-they say they give you regional travel and then make you travel across country -the bonus for CRAs is impossible to get. Due to how they do business, it is hard for you to make 8 days on site unless they give you 6 protocols -travel time is not accounting in your metrics -the metrics for site assignment is arbitrary. There is no formal calculation based on the complexity of the protocol, travel, site enrollment and sites issues -many people are leaving, so the managers just keep giving you more sites but do not account for this in your metrics -no one seems to know the SOPs and company process. Some say it is due to the merger, but it is more the company culture to be lazy and uninformed. Due to this, you will be asked to complete tasks that are not yours ( ie CRA completing tasks that are to be completed by Site Start Up or the Project Managers or QA). -Global Lead CRAs are not knowledgeable on the protocol and not responsive. Therefore they do not support the staff and the studies are commonly mismanaged (I was on 5 projects for different Sponsors and not 1 was managed properly) -there is no training, most of it is self study and Medical monitors or GLCRAs are rarely available to answer questions -good luck with the onboarding process. "Onboarding Managers" are initially assigned, but since they don't work with the systems, they generally don't know how to get you access for the systems you need, so they are quite useless -although it is not said initially, you are expected to travel on weekends. You have to do everything to deliver the project. Since projects are mismanaged, travel requests are usually made last minute and you have to travel on weekends. They do not respect your personal life. -they are dishonest with Sponsors and do not inform or escalate issues concerns/issues when they should -you do not have a Line Manager. ClinOps Leads who manage projects are given a few people to manage. You do not get the support from them because their own project needs usually are a priority and some are not qualified nor interested in being managers

1.0
Feb 5, 2019

Stay far away from this trainwreck

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I don’t have anything to say about my experience that has anything positive attached to it. How about this? THEY WILL LET ANYONE BE A MANAGER, EVEN THE INCOMPETENT AND DELUSIONAL

Cons

My manager was AWFUL. Awful awful awful. You couldn’t pay me to go back. Nightmares.

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