Great experience, disappointing I can't make a bigger impact - Financial Planning & Accounting Merck Employee Review

4.0
Aug 9, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation is extremely competitive. I was involved in the execution, and at times the planning, of a lot of the changes since I joined the company. There is a tremendous wealth of talent and innovation beyond R&D deployed to sincerely make in impact to alter the course of human disease across the globe. I believe, the CEO is sincerely attempting to broaden access to healthcare solutions.

Cons

Organizational changes, lead candidate selection, and business continuity has increased positional stagnation and decreased employee development. "The strongest fish will jump." I can appreciate the need to reduce the fix cost structure to improve working capital, however the ones who define the new org structure are the true change targets. Not the employees who execute the strategy exquisitely.

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5.0
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Pros

Work Life Balance, Benefits, Remote Work

Cons

Easy to stagnate if not being proactive about building skills and networking

4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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