Field Based Manager - Corporate Accounts Manager Merck Employee Review

3.0
Dec 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, moderate security, well established company without excess administrative documentation. There are many very experienced people with long term tenure, so people can learn from colleagues. Merck has the structure and background to maximize its business.

Cons

Silo thinking, lack of communication and managers with less experience and knowledge making the wrong decisions. Communication dropped when the FDA fined the company for some field based activities. This drop in communication resulted in valuable knowledge not being transferred from the field to headquarters. This was frustrating for the field and lots of people are reevaluating their career options.

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Cons

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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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