Merck - Scientist Merck Employee Review

5.0
Oct 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They have so many great benefits, like the INSPIRE rewards program, 401k matching, and education benefits. You can use the education benefits to return to school yourself, or put towards your child's schooling.

Cons

It's a large company, so it can sometimes be difficult to track down in-house expertise or resources. Often there are people who have expertise you want to learn from, but it can be hard to know where to look. Probably similar to any large Biopharma company.

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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