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3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(3,828 total reviews)
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Marc Casper

82% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

PPD has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,828 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PPD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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5.0
30 Nov 2022

An amazing company to work for

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Pros

I have been with this company for 4.5 years and have nothing but great things to share. Incredible highly professional team, collaborative and supportive environment, interesting and challenging work, flexible working arrangements, generous compensation.

Cons

Like every role there are always some challenges, but not really any vons for the company. It’s a great place to work

1.0
5 Oct 2023
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Pros

You can work remote in some roles.

Cons

Thermo Fisher has brought this company back to the 80’s. $840 a MONTH for family health coverage JUST medical. Layoffs everywhere of staff with years of institutional knowledge in a toxic culture that just cares about the bottom line. This is not PPD from ten years ago. This is a money making machine with zero regard for you or your work life balance. The senior leaders are all jumping ship for a reason. Every process here is like a hundred steps and everyone needs to approve it’s very inefficient. No data is shared with leaders including pay I cannot see any of that information anymore. Pay for performance is the mantra so you have to take away from a successful employee to give more money to a highly successful employee. It’s just awful people are miserable and feel like cogs in a machine. It’s a shame it’s not the PPD I once knew and with sales not being met I’m guessing it will continue to get worse. Lack of resources when you reach out to HR it’s all a ticketing system with either no response or a response that doesn’t match your question. I could go on and on just do yourself a favor and look elsewhere sadly this isn’t a great place to work anymore.

5.0
13 Jan 2021
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Pros

In my experience, PPD has been great at promoting work/life balance, even as I'm in a traveling position. It can be stressful at times, as with any job when you have deadlines for tasks, but I have never felt overwhelmed with work at this company. I have always felt very valued as an employee. I've given my all, but been recognized for it also, which is very important to me. In 5 years at the company, I've been promoted 3 times (soon to be 4), and I have always felt very supported and like my line manager cheers me on. I also live in an area where hurricane Florence really impacted us a few years back. The way PPD supported us during that time is was a testament to me about how much they really care about us, and I really appreciated all the ways they tried to help us during that time. I couldn't ask for a better company!

Cons

As with any job, busy times can be stressful, but I have never felt like I wasn't supported, and my managers have always tried to make sure I had everything I needed and wasn't feeling overwhelmed.

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