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Tarek Sherif
124 Ratings
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Great flexibility to accommodate work-life Balance (in 19 reviews)
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There are growing pains of course but at least the company is growing and they still care about there employees and customers (in 9 reviews)
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It is difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance; the expectation is that you are available (in 14 reviews)
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Middle management is not always that good and often toxic (in 9 reviews)
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"Warm and supportive"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions (More than 3 years)
Pros
Early on you will get to learn a lot. Great co-workers. Smart and supportive.
Cons
Managers are out of touch and senior managers are very out of touch. The same mistakes are made repeatedly, no suggestion box
Advice to Management
Promote hands on leaders who work with the developers
Medidata Solutions 2017-06-07 17:34 PDT -
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"Great Place To Work"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions full-time
Pros
Great environment to work. Offers a lot of job-related tools. Great flexibility to accommodate work-life Balance.
Cons
Not all teams are same - lucky if you have a good team and a good manager.
Medidata Solutions 2017-05-23 08:03 PDT -
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"Great Place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Enjoyable environment
Great colleagues
Wonderful benefits and comps
Great Pay
Respected as a contributing memberCons
No cons in my honest opinion.
Medidata Solutions 2017-04-28 11:57 PDT -
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"Great place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great people and leaders. Great, collaborative culture and care about their people.
Cons
None - just have to work well in a fast paced, growing environment.
Advice to Management
Continue to keep open lines of communication and take feedback from employees
Medidata Solutions 2017-04-25 13:58 PDT -
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"Great place to work!!!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Unlimited PTO, flexibility to wfh, great office space, holiday parties are top notch and the company is growing exponentially. Medidata is all around a great company doing great things!!!
Cons
I don't have anything bad to say. Management is very reasonable, sometimes you have to push to get ideas through but most companies are resistant to change. It does take a persistent person to spur change however you get out what you put in. My only con is a lot of people are ok with status quo which makes it hard to implement change.
Advice to Management
Let your young guns shine. Support their ideas and put them in the position to grow.
Medidata Solutions 2017-04-09 11:53 PDT -
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"Horrible, Decaying Company, Egregious HR Department, Terrible Leadership - Avoid at all costs"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
The lights turn on in the Office Locations.
Cons
Lack of any tangible Company Culture, Direction, and Passion.
Bullying, Hostile Work Environment.
Non-existent Work/Life Balance. 10-15 Hour work days are the norm if you do not have a manager title.
Pay and compensation are not competitive.
Pointless Reorganizations that stagnant any team progress.
Brain-drain. Many of the few remaining talented employees are jumping ship.
Endless Meetings.
Falsified and pressured via HR for Mgmt. and New Employees to leave positive Glassdoor reviews.
Continuously rotating and disconnected executives.
Archaic, Bug Filled, Legacy Products, which have simply been given a UI face-lift.
No growth or movement for Internal Employees.
Very poor treatment of Contractors, particularly Finance Contractors for which I have witnessed myself.
Culture of Outsourcing -- Massive Team Layoffs.
Continuous Political In-Fighting across departments.
The absolute worst IT Department and support. Multiple failing internal services & support.
Horrendous and spiteful Middle Management, across departments.
New Executive Flavor-of-the-month that follows with over expectations, which ends at disappointment and employee separations.
R&D experiences almost semi-yearly complete restructuring due to lack of management, vision, and a
'Outsource Everything' Culture spurred by the tyrannical COO.
Extremely High Employee Turnover for past 7 years+. Churn & Burn Mentality. I have never seen the amount of voluntary and non-voluntary employee separations from any other private or public company.
The most unprofessional, unethical, duplicitous, HR Department, I've ever witnessed. Lack of diversity, clear fabrication of facts, which aided to
the Company was unable to hire in Japan for over 1.5 years due to the unethical, and destructive HR Management. This is public and available information.Advice to Management
Go back to what this company may have represented an inkling of 10 years ago.....
Stop the fraudulent and aggressive public lawsuits of former employees and other competitors such as Veeva. Medidata publicly dropped the citation of 5 former employees after it was shown to be a baseless ploy of preventing a fair and open competitive market.........
Overhaul your whole HR Department. Specifically your unethical HR Business Partners Team & Generalists. There is good reason why over 50% of the negative reviews (which are over half of all the reviews) for both Company and Interview Reviews specifically mention your HR department from the leadership down.
Attempt to compete ethically & fairly with competition.
Treat your Employees like actual Human Beings.Medidata Solutions 2017-05-17 06:58 PDT -
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"Exciting Company & Strategy"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Medidata is an ever-growing company and is always looking for new ways to integrate, operate and grow.
Cons
At times the excessive growth and change can be challenging for employees to matriculate to new processes while maintaining high performance.
Advice to Management
Clearly define a career growth ladder and performance needed to attain next steps.
Medidata Solutions 2017-03-22 08:18 PDT -
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"Bad management, shady HR"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- Good location
- Nice office
- Good coffee and bagel mondaysCons
- Management is very result driven. I had 3 people reminding me about the same tasks multiple times a day.
- Meetings turn into knife fights very quickly, everyone is quick to blame everyone else and to fight over the smallest disagreement. Short meetings always turned into hours with tabled conversations for later over small disagreements that were never resolved.
- Low pay, they pay about 30 percent less than competitors for the same role in the same location.
- Management should stay out of software. Managers who haven't programmed in 20 years should trust their teams to make the right choices and quit trying to micro manage. This is a company that obsesses over micromanaging and because of this very little gets done, everyone is too busy knife fighting.
- HR is there to protect the company, don't trust them. They tried to trick me into signing an agreement that would have denied me any compensation package and would have denied me unemployment.Advice to Management
Trust your employees, treat them like an asset not a liability. Everyone kept asking why the turnover rate was so high. It's because the pay is so low and the management is so annoying. The stress isn't worth it for so little pay.
Medidata Solutions 2017-04-20 18:56 PDT -
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"Great mission and growth prospects"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great company with strong growth prospects. Director/VP/SVPs are all very strong talent and great people working together to expand the company, products, clients, partners and revenue. Dynamic environment and geographic flexibility offered to sales professionals.
Cons
Company is only 15 years old so while some processes have been established and are scalable, others are still in process. Lots of change in sales leadership in last two years. Come prepared to work hard!
Advice to Management
Keep it up!
Medidata Solutions 2017-03-02 04:59 PST -
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"Finance"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Medidata Solutions full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Nice office and good parties
Cons
No work life balance
Medidata Solutions 2017-03-17 14:44 PDT -
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