What is working from home like at Medpace?

Good benefits, work from home days, flex time.

Poor work-life balance. High stress, heavy workload.

Colleagues are in the same hell hole so they get it

Medpace eat up fresh PhD students, chew them up and spit them out. The aCTM pathway is truly horrendous. They put you through a year or two of being a project coordinator, where you are treated horrendously as you are the bottom of the pile. They then put you through a 5 month aCTM ‘training’ programme where you are critiqued on font styles in PowerPoint presentations and shouted at by egotistical senior CTMs when you ask relevant questions that would actually help your learning and development because you are told you are not allowed to ask questions. You are given no direction on when/what you need to do for promotion. Despite what they tell you there is no guarantee you will be promoted and if the trainers don’t like you, you won’t be promoted. If you are promoted to CTM you are given no training apart from a few PowerPoint slides and then left completely unsupported. The culture of bullying from senior members of staff is truly shocking and widespread. The company do nothing to protect you if you are bullied, they gaslight you into thinking that you are the issue and unfortunately don’t take any actions on the individuals who are bullying, allowing them to go on and continue to bully even more members of staff. During monthly meetings, CTMs are subjected to being told how bad they are, belittled and told how good they have it compared to other companies. You are expected to work a lot of unpaid overtime at all hours, travel with no additional pay or time back and then despite hitting your objectives and going above and beyond, you are given a trashy bonus if a bonus at all. With 2 weeks notice, they changed the work from home policy, removing a large amount of work from home days, leaving little time to organise changes to childcare. The company do not allow flexibility on the work from home policy for any reason, including severe weather. If you are thinking about applying for Medpace, I would advise that you don’t and join another company that will not bully you and are committed to training and developing you in a positive environment, celebrating you and your achievements. Medpace sucks the life out of you, don’t make the same mistake as everyone else did.

People are nice but you can find good colleagues anywhere.

Not enough desks for all employees, short about 1k parking spots, no flexibility and rapidly decreasing work from home options. Positions that could be performed fully remote are required to come in more for zero reason. Most likely to fund the financially failing eatery. Have a sick child and need to WFH to take care of them? Too bad. Have a family member dying in the hospital and need to WFH? Sucks to be you. Have car issues and can't drive in but are still available to work remotely? That's your problem. Things used to be pretty good here with good moral. It's been downhill for a year and everyone is jumping ship. Probably because the CEO told everyone to leave in the quarterly meeting anyways. To top everything off, the bridge reconstruction causes everyone's commute to double in length. Any flexibility to help with parking or commute? Absolutely not.

Nice work environment. Friendly and supportive colleagues. Dynamic. Office is great and in a fantastic location.

Bad maternity leave, work from home policy and very few days of sick leave at the beginning.

Not asked to work more than 40 hours

Severely overworked during those 40 hours, promotions seem to be based on seniority rather than merit, communication between upper level management and employees is almost non-existent, bonuses are awarded to employees the cycle after they’ve worked there for a year (cycle is in March), employer doesn’t match 401k until a year after employment (not fully vested until 3 years of employment), no work from home in this role, work from home for other positions is actively being rolled back

Colleagues in the same situation as you, so really trauma bonded together

- Unclear from the outset regarding benefits. On Interview told 6-month probation and then you can work from home. In reality it’s after your 6th full month - so even if you start on the 2nd you have to work 7 months before receiving benefits. - Lack of flexibility regarding work from home, personal appointments. Grandparent dies, ‘sorry you can’t take bereavement leave’. Have a hospital appointment on a ‘together Tuesday’. Sorry since you can’t work from home you have to book annual leave - You are micromanaged to a level I have never experienced before. - There is one rule for management and one for everyone else. You have to apply to be fully remote and this is denied despite meeting the criteria outlined in the (very hidden) employee handbook unless you are a director - Payrises this year were below inflation resulting in a real terms pay cut. This is despite the fact that I received an exceptional annual review. - No support in a managing workload. In fact you are punished for raising issues and taken off/given more studies as a punishment - Expected to work over contracted hours pretty much every day - aCTM training is a shambles. You spend your first month watching dull power points and when you ask for help you are told to work it out. - Breakfast and Learn neither has breakfast or learning. Used as a torture session to bully associates and dangle promotion as a reward - Promotions are not consistent -CEO must approve all decisions which results in lack of clarity and promotions being denied or agreed based on feelings or whether a senior director likes you or not - When issues are raised they are blamed on your lack of ability to handle the workload or that you are not suited to the role. This is despite multiple complaints from different people - The maternity leave policy is shocking, and is reflective on how little the company cares about its staff. This actively discouraged those from having families and the lack of flexibility for working parents is disgusting. - The whole company is toxic. I don’t know anyone who isn’t looking to leave in the immediate future. Those who stay are tied in by the non-compete and three month notice period

Will hire new grads with no experience Teams work hard and are supportive

Morale has been quite terrible lately due to denied promotions/raises in the last year and recent changes in our work from home policies. Upper management has blamed inflation and parking issues in Cincinnati for these changes, which really is just confusing and a little insulting. I am most disappointed with the poor communication surrounding the new return to office policy. Two weeks is not enough time to adjust to the reduced flexibility, and this abrupt change will cause unnecessary stress for families that were not expecting to lose work from home. This transition could have been handled much better. While I love my team and the people I work with, decisions made by upper management (abrupt return to office, exit badge swipes, firing over WFH non-compliance), lackluster benefits (no paid parental leave, high deductible insurance, three-year vesting timeline for 401K), and the non-competes (preventing employees from leaving an unsupportive environment) have left a bad taste in my mouth. I am not confident that upper management is leading the company in the right direction.

Projects are interesting to work on.

Inflexible when it comes to working from home. Policy changed out of the blue and the total wfh days in a year decreased from 106 to 80. No explanation given other than the desire for the company to move away from a hybrid working model and make workers come into the office more. They said “if you don’t like it then leave”. Maternity leave is the minimum that your country will allow. Unaffordable to many and with less work from home days, having a family and working at Medpace is not good. Almost like they don’t want people to have children?

I loved the people there they were great.

Not a fan of the work from home or the upper upper management

Decent salary for some people

Limited work from home, limiting promotions