operations technician - Operations Technicians Merck Employee Review

3.0
May 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Laid back atmosphere. With plenty of room for growth and opportunity to learn more about the products produced, and there benefits.

Cons

At times during the ramping down of product , you don't get a chance3 to go down on the floor because your not processing. So most of your time is spent on computers completing SOP's and answering emails.

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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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