ICON interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Very positive
How others got an interview
- 18%RecruiterRecruiter
- 12%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 3%OtherOther
- 3%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 2%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 1%In PersonIn Person
Interview search
977 interviews
ICON interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at ICON as 58.1% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.65 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Study Start-Up Associate and Contract Specialist rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Senior CRA and Global Trial Manager roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at ICON takes an average of 20 days when considering 31 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Clinical Research Assistant had the quickest hiring process (on average 2 days), whereas Global Trial Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at ICON according to 31 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 15%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Clinical Research Associate(234) ;
- Project Manager(192) ;
- Clinical Trial Assistant (CTA)(179) ;
- Senior CRA(177) ;
- CRA I(157) ;
- Clinical Trial Manager(115) ;
- Clinical Trial Assistant(110) ;
- Project Associate(108) ;
- Study Start-Up Associate(73) ;
- Drug Safety Associate(72) ;
- CRA(70) ;
- Senior Clinical Research Associate(69) ;
- In House CRA(59) ;
- CRA II(55) ;
- Clinical Research Associate II(53) .
