Pros
I intentionally put off writing this review for some time after leaving ClearView to distance myself from the experience of working there enough to deliver an objective review. It is telling that even the most critical reviews here highlight the amazing talent that exists in the Associate through Consultant ranks. I won’t re-hash those perspectives other than to confirm the personnel at that level are genuinely top-notch. The breadth of the projects that the different leadership members tend to sell can allow for a nice variety in the day-to-day work, and provide the opportunity to develop experience with different pharma business units. If you don’t have a solid grounding in industry fundamentals the training provides a reasonable base to work from. Project work can provide a good foundation to transition to a number of roles on the client side, if that is of interest. FYI – do not get sucked into thinking you need to stay long enough make it to EM to move to pharma. Pharma isn’t going to hire an EM for anything they wouldn’t hire an experienced Consultant for.
Cons
The frustration with leadership expressed in many of these reviews mirrors my experience as well. Scheduled/approved time off is not respected by managers, literally all 24 hours of every day are expected to be made available to CV, rotating project teams mean no manager feels a responsibility to help you develop, pay is not comparable with other firms doing comparable work, etc. For some, the experience may still be worth it. Understand up front, however, that there will be no room in your life regularly for anything or anyone except CV. The lack of response to issues from leadership, however, is entirely understandable. They don’t own the company. A PE firm does, which they don’t tell you when joining. Leadership is not interested in developing a solid employee base that is well treated in order to drive long-term growth or sustainability of the business. They want to make the business look as expensive as possible on paper so that they and the PE firm can soon exit their minority position at a large premium. When you understand that the primary interest for leadership is putting themselves in a position to retire in 18 months you can see why they aren’t interested in how much sleep you get. Given this reality, don’t expect a sudden awakening of leadership to your needs.