Great company, got even better after I left - Senior Laboratory Technician Merck Employee Review

5.0
May 21, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The people were fantastic, my immediate supervisor was an inspiration to me (which has helped me tremendously in my current position), hard work but I felt good about what I was doing.

Cons

Some of the management micromanaged way too much. Pay was underwhelming while I was there (although I hear it got better after I left). Definitely seemed as though those that kissed up to certain managers got promoted through the ranks faster than those who worked hard and kept their head down.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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