Not what your sold on, but not terrible. - Operations Manager Merck Employee Review

3.0
Feb 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company. Good benefits. Great company to have on a resume. Exciting if you are into the science of what Merck does.

Cons

Not even close to the actual job description. Poor organizational structure, very old way of actually doing the day to day business. Culture needs a change. Unions. To many convoluted systems and steps. I.e. you have techs use a system that feeds into another system that does the exact same thing, all because leadership doesn't trust the techs to do the right thing. How about you hold people accountable for their actions? That's a start. Not much on accountability or responsibility.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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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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