Anonymous - Anonymous employee Merck Employee Review

3.0
May 24, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary is OK. Good benefits. Really good people - peers. Everyone works really hard and understands the company mission to save lives and make people feel better.

Cons

Very unappreciative site management, continual expectation to do more with less, people, equipment. No promotions, no career development, forced distributions, unprofessional management, no social network as all the great people were let go Dec 2011 or before. Most work is being outsourced. Many jobs have been eliminated or are in jeopardy as a result of the 2009 merger with Schering Plough. Every year responsibilities increased but pay raises decreased. Promotions stagnant and bar for bonuses raised higher and higher. Change occurs every year.

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Pros

Great benefits like medical/dentist/vision, pension, stock option, 401k match. Co workers are excellent, pretty good on site symposiums, lot of diversity clubs/activities. Innovation is extremely welcomed. Diversity in research portfolio. AI/ML is heavily invested to make databases more efficient.

Cons

Micro managing, especially within the biologics department, potentially others. Promotions are limited, and pay bump is poor. Company invests too much in buying companies rather than keeping talent - lay offs let go of great talented people. Merck is afraid of investing into exploratory biology and doesn’t take risk - they even admit they would rather see other companies clinical data or R&D data rather than taking a risk. Although it’s slow going in building new software, current databases are slow and needs much improvement. Extremely poor work/life balance.

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