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Copernicus Group IRB

Part of WCG Clinical

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Great work staff, terrible corporate management - Anonymous employee Copernicus Group IRB Employee Review

2.0
15 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package is better than larger companies like PPD. People at the office are ( With some minor exceptions) great to work with.

Cons

Pay is on average $10k under market vs competitors or clients ( the high turnover is usually employees going to work for the company's clients because the workload is less and the pay is more. Since the acquisition and subsequent ReCap, grand sweeping decisions directed by a CEO that has no clue how badly he is driving this ship into the rocks ahead. The software our clients use is developed in a " agile environment " and while everyone uses the term, no one understands how it works. This has caused us the office workers that deal with the clients all manner of headaches when things break on the regular. They have recently forced out all of the original IT team that supported us, and while the new team is good, it's clear that whatever tribal knowledge the old team had, it did not get passed on. The office morale is at an all time low, people don't talk to eachother, every department is quiet like a tomb save the clicking of keystrokes. Some managers that have been there for seemingly ever prefer this behavior under the thought that " if you have time to talk, you have time to do more work".

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5.0
2 Nov 2022
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
9 Sept 2018
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, good pay.

Cons

This company used to be almost like a family - everyone used to look out for each other and work together as a team. Now, the company is very divided. Operations is it's own entity and management has let them down on several occasions. There is no support or transparency from management - they keep a ton of secrets instead of being open with the operations team when it comes to decisions and things that directly affect them. Hiring takes forever - when a team that used to have 12 employees becomes a team with 6, they need help. It shouldn't take months to hire employees when there is both an urgent need AND available people within the company who are willing to join the team immediately. Operations is told to work extensive hours and get little to no recognition or compensation for the amount of work that they put in. When the company started, and even years later when I joined, we had amazing people with great skill sets working here. These great people have become tired, overworked, and under-appreciated. Now, the morale throughout the teams is at an all time low.

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