PRA Health Sciences was better - IT Applications Analyst ICON Employee Review

2.0
Jul 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues in IT, and Managers too. Very flexible with time off and work from home. The overall vibe of the company is they mean well, and clinical research orgs do so much to better our healthcare.

Cons

They play the corporate game well. Execs and Board cover their tails and pay themselves very well (hundreds times more than their lowest paid employees, I'm sure). Communication across business units or even within divisions of business units not great. Tech platforms and systems were not as good as PRAHS's. Lots of layoffs across many departments and business units; while (in IT anyway), dropping so many people led to spreading retained staff way too thin.

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Really great manager. Remote work major plus. No micro management. Great pay

Cons

Annual salary increase this year isn't until September which is odd.

2.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Very little pros to working here other than it's very easy to stay under the radar. The work load is light.

Cons

Very little room for growth, eventually got laid off because ICON over hired too many CRAs it could handle. The CRA bridge program was supposed to be only 3-6 months but people we not able to promote despite being there for 2+ years

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