Cytel Inc Reviews

There is no doubt the company is growing. The upper management is very ready to celebrate that at every single opportunity (actually very exhausting to be reminded repeatedly). Bonus structure doesn't make sense. The company grew immensely, made lots of financial gains and our team almost scored top marks in performance by the client, however our average merit increase and bonus were very low compared to industry standards. Perhaps, the managers got much higher bonuses? Meanwhile, they are always hiring aggressively. HR/management often reach out to colleagues and ask for referrals. I'm not too enthusiastic about these inquiries because they never reach out for anything else, and they are not that helpful when you need them. When they do successfully hire, the incoming employee probably makes much more money than someone who has been there for years due to this dysfunctional merit system. Without a transparent merit system in place, every new hire is an encouragement for the little guy to leave and pursue better.

The company has lost its way. Treatment of staff can be impersonal. It can be a treadmill for stats programmers like many other larger CROs. Original culture is lost and it has become another Parexel for better or worse. Numerous key people have left under current leadership. CEO is hard-charging, without a coherent technology vision and too willing to treat people as commodities rather than core of the business.