MilliporeSigma reviews

Upper management is absolute horribleThey don't care about their employees simple as that. They are continually going through power struggles. They have no idea what they are doing as far as delivering effective communication, creating a healthy work space, and people management. There are a lot of holes in this company and it's sad. No one knows the real reason they are here besides getting a paycheck and that should be very concerning for the people receiving the treatment they are producing. Also, there is very bad work-life balance here. Be prepared to miss all the important events that are important to you and the people in your personal life cause if you don't put in for time off 4-7 months ahead of time you can forget about going anywhere. This company was also low balling me in compensation. Every biotech including ones you have never heard of are getting paid more than people are here. I found out that people that were male and had a degree from lesser established universities were getting paid more than me for the same job title and duties for a while until they evened it out later in the year. Which we still were being under paid.

Being a former SIAL employee Merck KGaA has made it perfectly clear to us that we are second class employees. Two years in a row they beat us down further by explaining how the original Merck employees--the true Merck employees--get bonuses, thanks in part to our hard work, while we get nothing for our hard work. Two years ago they said we would be part of the bonus plan and that proved to not be true. It's 20 days from the next year's paycheck, as in business year, and no one knows if we are getting a raise or how much, but we do know that the true Merck KGaA employees are also getting bonuses. They compound this disaster by not informing any SIAL management in advance of this email and lack of bonuses. T his means they get everyone's hope up with a bonus and then site managers are given the burden of destroying morale by telling them we are not getting bonuses. This also speaks of their complete lack of transparacy and care of all of the former SIAL employees--lower management and underlings alike. Under SIAL the morale was not good but I never thought it would or could get this bad. The Merck KGaA management doesn't seem to care and has made this disaster far worse by remaining dead silent while the fallout from the second class employees grows louder; calling them out for the unwarrented insult and slap in the face. Nothing has gotten better under the new company and management has found a way to take a beaten down work force and get them more angry with the upper leadership. This is lunacy. Avoid working at any former SIAL site unless you want to be treated as a second class employre while hearing how wonderful the original Merck KGaA employees are treated and valued. But if you can get a job at an original Merck KGaA, than do it because they actually treat those workers really well--it's a shame they have rub it in our second class faces though.