A former European employee of IQVIA reports the company is heavily outsourcing to South America and that they were laid off with only 12 minutes of warning.

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        "excerpt": "Im from EU and have been working in IQVIA. In my country, IQVIA salaries are quite low, compared to other CROs as PPD or ICON. Work-life balance was extremely bad, my position was site activation specialist. I would not recommend it if you are in a good place now...",
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        "excerpt": "I have worked at IQVIA in Europe. As the other commented said, their salaries are a bit below other CROs. They also suffer from just being a huge company with overcomplicated processes and a lot of role specialization to maximise outsourcing.\n\n Truth be told, sometimes that can still be a good career move - you grit your teeth for a bit, build some more experience that complements your CV, and the",
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        "excerpt": "As a CRA you probably won’t need to worry about this, but IQVIA has been outsourcing to South America A LOT. I mean A LOT A LOT. They can’t outsource CRAs for Europe there otherwise trust me they would\nThey lay people off without so much of a warning. Worked in Europe with them for 3 years they laid me off in 12 minutes on a random day after I had just started working like any other day. Got a sev",
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        "excerpt": "If you're leaving your non-profit organization at some point in the future, then for me, the question is purely about your future financial plans. How much money will it provide, and how much closer will that money take you to your objectives?",
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        "excerpt": "Being an IQVIA CRA will however open a lot of doors in the future. Work life balance is not great right now at ANY company, but for building a CV and experience IQVIA is pretty good. I left because of money, as many mentioned here, but if you found the offer impressive you lose nothing by taking it. You can always come back to your previous job if you don’t burn bridges.",
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    "post_text": "Hi just like the title suggests I got an amazing offer from IQVIA (EU located). But at the moment I am unsure if I should take it.\n\nI am happy at my current job, nice colleagues, great environment and I've been working here for a few years and still feel very positive about it.\n\nI am mentally drained (not work related) and feel like it'll take a lot of energy to switch positions.\n\nBut, right now I work for a non-profit organization and I know they'll not be able to match IQVIAs offer in the least. Working for this non-profit is nice, but there are not a lot of growing possibilities and I think in a few years I will leave either way.\n\nI am reading a lot about IQVIA being very hard to get an offer from or even a response and wondered why, is it such a nice company to work for (or quite the opposite)?\n\nAlso I may need to add that they reached out to ME, so it all came out of nowhere and I am very unprepared.\n\nI also wanted to add that I don't live in the US, I know things are very different there compared to here in the EU, so if possible I would like to hear stories from people that are situated in the EU :)",
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