Quintiles Reviews

Pros

Smart, hard-working, and good people
Work worth doing

Cons

Lots of internal competition; Not structured clearly
Many ambiguous roles offered to attract and acquire market talent

Advice to Senior Management

Need clearer reporting structure and roles & responsibilities

Pros

Good Trainings, very qualified people, Good salaries and benefit package.

Cons

Management should be more open to suggestions.

Advice to Senior Management

They should listen more, to be more open to employee suggestions.

Pros

the benefits are good. the workload is quite heavy but at least there is work. generally your coworkers are to busy to be a distraction.

Cons

There is not much of a work-life balance as the workload is great. Given the level of work and responsibility, the pay is very low.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay the employees according to their actual level of experience, education and amount of responsibility. It is sometimes hard to stay motivated when you do not feel like a member of the team.

Pros

Big company providing a lot of trainings and experience in the field. Good co-workers.

Cons

Bad work-life balance, lack of clear communication to emplyees and indifference of the management to the subbordinates. Increasing targets and a lot of changes in the organization in the last four years.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate and keep the experienced, loyal and hard-working employees, motivate and promote them. Improve work-life balance and compensations.

Pros

Good competitive pay in comparison to similar jobs. Vert experienced coworkers. Ability for personal development is fair. Hands on business style.

Cons

Difficult to manage work life balance. Favoritism is shown. Sense of mistrust among leadership and regular employees. So many people have been there for so long that there are tight knit circles. Hard for new people to find a home.

Advice to Senior Management

Open up and show people they are welcome. Respond to concerns in a timely manner. You don't need a survey for everything. Make employees think you cate about them not just your bottom line.

Pros

Ability to work at home, when you're not on the road 50 hrs per week.

Cons

Overworked and not appreciated! The current load placed on the CRAs is incredibly heavy. There is no work life balance. Metric drives everything and we are no longer being treated as people. In order to meet your metrics, you must work the 50 hours, then manage your administrative tasks on systems that don't work.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees! When Sr CRAs that have been with the company for 10+ yrs and have weathered the past storms begin seeking medical help for exhaustion~ there's a problem. If jobs weren't so hard to come by these days, I believe you would see CRAs flocking for the doors. Listen up to your long time, loyal employees, who remember what Quintiles once was. A company that CARED about their employees!

Pros

Great benefits package, 401K, personal life benefits and reimbursement programs, flexible hours, great cafe (QRTP-Plaza), on-site fitness center and medical center, brand recognition

Cons

Decentalized/matrix management structure - you have many bosses telling you what to do and demanding work. Long hours - employee utilization is over 100%, billable and non-billable departments - some work hard to make the money while others burn it up.

Pros

Some flexibility in working hours; Half day off per month; 20 working days leave; It pays most of my bills

Cons

WARNING: More cons than pros. 1. Nepotism is rife at this company. 2. Expect to see WORK-life balance along the lines of... did you see WORK is capitalized and life is not? That should tell you something... 3. Don't EVER shine or stand out, you will be cut down just below the knees.

Advice to Senior Management

The way in which the decision is made whether to allocate more work to a business unit or not is utterly flawed. If only 4 cylinders in a 6 cylinder engine are fully operational, it means the engine is running at 66.67%, right? So that means we can take on 33.3% more work, right? WRONG. It means the 4 working cylinders have to work just THAT MUCH harder to deliver the same output, while stringing along the driftwood at their feet. I DO have a solution to this issue, but nobody seems to be listening or even remotely interested in listening.

Pros

Good people for the most part.
Ok benefits for a CRO

Cons

Promotions nil after you are hired unless you become pregnant or injured. Do not expect promotion by working hard. This is good place if you are thinking of becoming pregnant or have children.

Pros

Pay and benefits. Management team is competent.

Cons

Contract positions are not stable

Advice to Senior Management

None