Merck reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,176 total reviews)
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Rob Davis

81% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,176 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Merck 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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2.0
Aug 22, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work hours, don't track employee time in/out of office or vacation & sick days, just expect you to get your work done and that's it. Hours can be very long and crazy, but it can easily be balanced.

Cons

Layoffs aplenty. Highly bureacratic. Over structured. Very slow career movement growth. Company says they value their employees, yet don't demonstrate that they take employee interests or career goals into account during all these reorgs. They also preach 'compliance is #1' but the actions they take are all about money, money, money. Validation engineers are overworked and underpaid and most importantly, under appreciated.

1.0
Aug 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Large Company; good benefits; opportunity to learn new preocesses

Cons

No opportunity for advancement; when Merck "took over Schering-Plough", they "laid" off extremely qualified people (including myself) without even being interviewed. Merck took their own employees over Schering-Plough employees who had more knowledge and better skill sets. Merck obviously is a very nasty company, that will resort to any means to get ahead. CEO Frazier should be ashamed of himself for driving a company in this manner.

3.0
Aug 18, 2013

Long time scientist.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Resources w r t y I Good mission Pays well Strong science

Cons

Constant reorgs Lack of focus Middle management

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