Synarc Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Synarc full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – May opportunities to be a part of various clinical trials

Cons – Compensation is below industry standards

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Synarc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Very flexible hours, great people to work with and easy to get to location. Lots of parking. I enjoy working here, its a comfortable environment, relaxed people and you can dress comfortable without judgment. Some people have attitude and there self worth is a bit high, but easy to ignore.

Cons – The pay is very low compared to market rate, you have to be willing to give up the cash for the comfort. I think the talent will hangout for a short time and once a better offer comes along, it will be taken. Incentives are not really given, holiday parties are for employees only.

Advice to Senior Management – For such a profitable company, I would recommend giving your talent a little more competitive pay compared to market rate. Some incentives would be nice and go a long way with people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Synarc full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great company, great exposure to exciting technology, great team, wonderful scientific approach, ability to be hands-on in several areas, wonderful experience.

Cons – They offer you exposure to high level processes and the ability to move into a title quickly, however the downside to that approach is a payscale that is not on par with market competitiors. I receied a $40k raise simply by switching companies.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay will need to get more competitive to retain talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Synarc full-time for less than a year

Pros – The medical insurance plan is OK

Cons – I heard that the company reduces sick time from 10 days to 5 days next year (2013). That equals to a pay cut.
The trun-over rate is high. People come and go. Nobody cares. I am glad I have left.

Advice to Senior Management – For the long term growth, you should keep the talent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Synarc full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Hours were flexible
Health insurance was good
401k was ok
Started out well during initial employment
Lots of great people who offered beneficial connections

Cons – Internal frustration due to lack of organization for specific job duties and a flurry of people who were either bombarded with too many duties to complete their position successfully or newly inadequately trained new personnel who eventually left
Company has lots of opportunity to expand and be successful but either needs the current management to have more communication on longterm and short term goals with staff or obtain new management. One of Synarc's largest con's is drastically changing direction in business management. New management always cycled in with new ideas and trying to flip a whole company in a different direction constantly is probably their biggest financial waste. Money had to be made back for failed branches of expansion. Unfortunately this typically means the employees take the financial burden.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees well enough so they will want to stay. It cost more to keep on training and cycling through new inexperienced staff rather than maintain a well bodied one. Happy employees are more productive. More productive employees are more profitable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Synarc

Pros – Wonderful co-workers, complex service that is gratifying to walk clients through and communicate expertise, excellent benefits (vacation stars at 3 weeks with an additional day for each year worked)

Cons – Chronically resource constrained due to management's short term goal of looking profitable in near term versus realistically staffing projects. Always hire the most junior people possible to keep costs (salaries) low.

Advice to Senior Management – I hope someone with an interest in creating long term value over short term gain comes through.

Current Employee – been working at Synarc

Pros – Everyone but the senior management is dedicated to doing quality work and interacting on a professional level. The operations teams, bus dev, and technical people are all excellent.

Cons – Synarc’s Sr. Management is so disconnected from the reality of where the industry is going and lacks an intelligent growth plan to deal with not only the new business they've won, but the ability to go win further business. They set ridiculous goals, expect everyone to do at least two jobs, and treat the staff with disrespect. Management focuses on cost-cutting rather than growth, and people are afraid to point out when management is making a mistake that will harm the company because anyone who speaks up gets fired. All the best people have left or are leaving

Advice to Senior Management – Fire yourselves! Please, someone buy this company so I don't have to quit! I love my co-workers and want to stay but in the last few months alone I've seen the best VP BD we've ever had leave, the Head of Engineering quit, and whole teams on the verge of resigning. But our CEO and Head of Imaging are both clueless, treat people like dirt, and don't even share a vision for the company's long term growth. This place is on the verge of screwing up badly because management fires the good people and hires inexperienced people to replace them or puts their brown nosing buddies in charge of departments they have no business running (e.g. Operations). After six years here I am seriously fed up. I used to be proud to say I worked here. Now, I'm embarrassed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Synarc

Pros – The people who work here are fun and easy to get along with and working hours are very flexible. Good exposure to the clinical trial environment and processes

Cons – Workers put in a lot of work but are not compensated enough. It is hard to move up/grow within the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to the workers and recognize those who are hard workers. Senior management needs to be more comprehensive and thorough

Current Employee – been working at Synarc

Pros – Benefits are good, recent major improvements in opportunities for certifications and career advancement in select departments, coworkers are jewels and are an amazing opportunity to network in the industry, multiple training opportunities in lots of different fields if you actively seek it out.

Cons – Pay is pitifully low compared to industry standard for several select departments. In some cases it is 30-40,000$ below the lowest point in the standard range. Chronic under resourcing is a major issue and effects project success and team moral. Senior management is often hypocritical with what they present to employees vs. what they actually do. Some form of employee retention has shown up on the corporate goals for the past 4-5 years but Synarc continues to lose good people. Senior management has not been able to put their money where their mouth is.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay rates need a major evaluation and revision in order to retain good employees in departments that are the heart of quality deliverables such as Ops, CDM, and PM. When presenting company updates to employees there should either be Obama like transparency or reserved estimates so it does not seem as if you are rescinding something originally offered. Good employees should be rewarded with some sort of incentive in order to improve moral and drive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Synarc

Pros – Friendly and helpful colleagues, good benefits, good place to enter into clinical industry for a couple of years to develop skill set to be eligible to work as a sponsor clinical trial assistant--not clinical research associate

Cons – Very little room for advancement, salaries way below industry standard, incredibly high turnover in Operations

Advice to Senior Management – Restructure the Operations roles to add more value, focus more on employee retention over immediate bottom line