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Private equity sale is ruining a once-great company - Anonymous employee PPD Employee Review

2.0
Sep 20, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Provided health insurance. Good coworkers Good exposure to team at client site If you have a good technical lead, the job can be great!

Cons

You have 2 bosses (Technical lead from Client Site) and your PPD boss. PPD Boss does not know what is going on If you have a bad technical lead, your life can be miserable. Pay is low No protection from abusive technical lead (coworkers on same team can have a drastically different experience)

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