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Elena Bajic
2006
2.9
Recommend to a friend
59%
Say this is a great place to work
54%
Proud to have on resume
71%
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Depending on the friend, I would recommend Covance. The friend would need to be driven to work for a company that will work you very hard. The benefits are decent, the pay also decent, but you will definitely work for your pay. The science at Covance is very good, although the quality of their services has slipped over the past several years.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Top management views the workers as expendable. They always run lean, i.e., don't quite have enough employees to do the work, so there is generally a lot of required overtime for salaried employees. They encourage process improvement, but don't really support it, as far as giving the employees the resources to do it. Below the senior management, (i.e, the VPs) many of the director and manager levels try very hard to treat their employees well.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
They will work you hard, but you learn a lot and you will be extremely marketable in the Pharmaceutical arena.
Employee - Analyst / Associate / Consultant
Learned a lot there
Employee - Director
The Nashville team was very young and dynamic, very committed and focused on work, but also people liked each other and usually would go out together after work for drinks and dinner. We also socialized with each other during the weekend. I had the best professional/social time in my life at this company with these colleagues
Employee - Director
It's a large CRO like the other big five with its advantages and inconvenient, the leadership at the top level at the time i was there was fantastic at the level below not so and way below the working bees were excellent too. The spirit in Nashville was high although the survey done at the time within the entire company showed a profile of the company similar to ... the US post office. But upper management was aware and working on it.
Employee - Director
Challenging environment, pay, benefits, equity
Employee - Analyst / Associate / Consultant
If one is degree in the right field this can be a good job to start off your career in the subset of pharma. IF one can get past the pettiness of hiring managers.
Employee - Analyst / Associate / Consultant
Nepotism rich. Very clickish management. Low minority diversity.
Employee - Analyst / Associate / Consultant
Work life balance is impossible to do here.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The pay is low, the responsibility is great, the management won't take responsibility of failures due to overworking the staff. They are quick to place blame on anyone but themselves.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Continually blaming others for management failures and due to the lack of communicating of protocol changes errors occured which compromised studies. The idea of standard practice to prevent these errors was denied even though it would have saved May studies from being retested costing thousands.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Long hours and poor pay.
Employee - Vice President (VP, SVP, EVP, etc.)
Poor management and culture
Employee - Assistant / Coordinator
They are a factory.
Employee - Assistant / Coordinator
There are ethical considerations regarding the type of work (i.e. animal testing, etc.) that make work a challenge.
Employee - Director
I can speak for IT. Since the acquisition by LabCorp, Covance went from one of the best areas to works to one of the worst. The CIO is a horrible leader, although he will tell you what a good leader he is. He always tries to prove he is the smartest guy in the room. People are leaving in droves.
Employee - Director
It was good prior to LabCorp acquisition. Last year they fired 3 people for no reason, and since then, most are waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Employee - Director
I'm happy to put Covance on my resume because of the great things the company did in drug development. I prefer not to admit we were part of LabCorp.
Employee - Director
General Manager was homophobic and masogynistic