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Unbalanced Workloads & Babysitting Sites :/ - Country Approval Specialist PPD Employee Review

2.0
Jan 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will gain experience working with various sponsors, training is adequate, and you will have support from other CASs.

Cons

Your experience in the role is greatly dependent on your manager. Some study teams have experienced STMs and CTMs who are knowledgeable and will share that knowledge. Other STMs and CTMs are new, run away from questions, and leave you holding the bag. Some ask you questions that they should know the answer to while getting paid salary grades above you. There is also unbalanced workloads. Depending on your manager and assigned resource analyst, some people have to be allocated at least 97% or higher (sometimes being asked to go over 100%) while others float by 70-85% allocated. Some STM's have an attitude that everything had to be done yesterday, which quickly gets old. Also, you will have to babysit sites who don’t know how to fill out basic documentation.

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5.0
Dec 10, 2025
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CEO approval
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Pros

Great company, awesome people, and line managers.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provided health insurance. Good coworkers Good exposure to team at client site If you have a good technical lead, the job can be great!

Cons

You have 2 bosses (Technical lead from Client Site) and your PPD boss. PPD Boss does not know what is going on If you have a bad technical lead, your life can be miserable. Pay is low No protection from abusive technical lead (coworkers on same team can have a drastically different experience)

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