Merck KGaA reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(2,090 total reviews)
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73% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Merck KGaA has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,090 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Merck KGaA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Aug 11, 2015

Intern

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to work, learnt a lot

Cons

Highly Competitive in Merck Serono

4.0
Aug 6, 2015

Intern review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good atmosphere and lot of opportunities for interns.

Cons

As I was there for a short period, I did not weight up any cons.

1.0
Aug 5, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

broad therapeutic area expertise Reasonably decent internal training programs and professional development opportunities Very compliance focused

Cons

work culture at Merck Serono is rather controlling and conservative. Very difficult in my experience to change working practices that are supported by archaic and over elaborate business processes. Innovation is an alien term at Merck Serono and the company are too reliant on their historic heritage to adopt new smarter business practices. Their are also too many employees that work at the global or regional level that boss exactly how operations should be conducted at an affiliate country level. The resources at the country level are very sparse and the plans are over ambitious with little opportunity for affiliates to influence at a local level. In addition the pipeline is extremely lacking with no new products been launched in 9 years. New oncology products are in late stage of the pipeline but are unlikely to be leaders in their class.

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