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    IQVIA Reviews

    Updated 24 April 2019
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    IQVIA Chairman and CEO Ari Bousbib
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    • "Difficult to maintain work life balance" (in 255 reviews)

    • "No work life balance whatsoever" (in 46 reviews)

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    1. "Good"

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      Current Employee - Key Account Manager in London, England
      Current Employee - Key Account Manager in London, England

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good salary, good location, good

      Cons

      Many hours, everything is far away

    2. "High pressure but I felt valued"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I worked at IQVIA full-time

      Pros

      Great flexibility with working from home and flexible hours very much accepted. Team members are given a lot of autonomy and really trusted to do their jobs. I felt very valued here and loved the work I did. Also, great benefits!

      Cons

      Long hours and a very high workload. Risk of stress.

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    3. "4 years with IQVIA"

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      Current Employee - Solutions Sales Specialist in London, England
      Current Employee - Solutions Sales Specialist in London, England

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      work culture, team, brand name

      Cons

      slow growth, too many offerings

    4. "Consultant"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      great company, great people, very good work life balance

      Cons

      bonuses low compared to competitors

    5. "Sales Specialist - ruthless and heartless"

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      Former Employee - Sales Specialist in London, England
      Former Employee - Sales Specialist in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at IQVIA full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great benefits, including pensions, work socials, child care vouchers and commission. Office space is superb located in King's Cross and the client facing office area is as you would expect from a big healthcare company. The consultants, analysts are genuinely talented, educated and ambitious which maintains the great reputation of the company as a service and intelligence provider to global names. Great HR team as you would expect from a large corporation. Commission structure is very good.

      Cons

      Incredibly clique-y and the sales floor can feel like a boys locker room. Given unrealistic targets in incredibly saturated markets where there is very little opportunity which mangement will subsequenty blame on incompetence. Colleagues across the pond will lie and steal deals and directors let them get away with it, even where there is evidence from the CRM system indicating as much. Some sales managers / associate directors are incompetent - good at reaching their own targets, terrible at training new starters or managing a team. If senior management like you, a promotion is possible, or else you are stuck in a job role to support the sales figures of your manager.

      Advice to Management

      Work on controlling how back stabbing the salesfloor is. There are sales directors who are terrible at their job - why are they still managing people?

    6. "A good company for starters in data science and machine learning."

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time

      Pros

      Good working hours for data scientists.
      Great team atmosphere (in my team at least).
      A fair amount of the work is ethically positive.

      Cons

      The salaries fall behind the market rates fairly quickly.

      Advice to Management

      There as many things that make IQVIA a great company for which to work.
      It is unfortunate that the increase in salaries is underwhelming - this acts as a disincentive to remain with the company over the longer term.

    7. "Bullying Line Manager - Clinical"

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      Current Employee - Clinical Research Associate in Reading, England
      Current Employee - Clinical Research Associate in Reading, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Mostly friendly, competent people to work with. Opportunity to work on interesting global projects with some good Sponsors. Some good managers do exist.

      Cons

      So much depends on your line manager. Bad managers are left in place for far too long - because they know how to play the game, and snr management does not seek any feedback from employees on the manager’s performance. In my department, people behave like Mean Girls at high school. My LM has shouted at me, and refuses to address staff being chronically overallocated. That being said, not all LMs are this bad, but I am shocked that this immature, dysfunctional culture has been tolerated for as long as it has. You will, of course, never get promoted unless your LM likes you enough to assign you to a “high-visibility” project. If they don’t like you, you may languish on B-grade projects for a loooooong time.

      Advice to Management

      Resource projects adequately instead of cheaply. Do 360 feedback on Line Managers to include their employees feedback. Provide better opportunities for (fair) career progression.

    8. "Consulting services"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time

      Pros

      Friendly environment, interesting/various projects, steep learning curve, client interaction

      Cons

      Work-life balance, lack of transparency, unclear career path

    9. Helpful (1)

      "Good company, struggling with transformation"

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      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England
      Current Employee - Consultant in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      - Teams can be excellent in their support, but highly variable
      - lots of teams doing lots of different and interesting work
      - reasonably good pay for industry
      - generally a market leader and aspires to be the best

      Cons

      - way too many business buzzwords and corporate messaging
      - senior managers and exec repeat fairly meaningless statements to try to appear virtuous; "repeat message even if untrue" is the mentality
      - teams cannibalise each other and are in conflict; creates constant barriers to innovation

      Advice to Management

      Stop with the meaningless marketing responses and be more human to your employees - then they will trust your messages more

    10. Helpful (1)

      "IQVIA"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at IQVIA full-time

      Pros

      Global culture, system and process oriented, flexible working, good benefits,

      Cons

      Talks a lot about work life culture but very difficult to execute, not enough people to tasks, culturally changed since merger very much about cost cutting , strong preference using low cost hubs for cheap employment.

      Advice to Management

      Healthcare is the foundation to this companies success to date , cost cutting does not improve customer delivery