3.0
Jun 24, 2012
Current employee, more than 3 years
Rahway, NJ
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
-Science culture is very strong (I work in R&D) -Very smart people and generally good management (at least in my dept) that allows you the freedom to operate and design your own experiments. -Great benefits and salary is pretty good too -Relatively high departmental budgets that let you buy new "toys" when you need them.
Cons
-It's a HUGE company and that slows it down (red-tape, management decision making is slow) -Although good science is done, there is a serious fear of change,especially since merger -Merck as a company does not handle layoffs very well: very little transparency -Bonuses are given at random with no meritocracy -Practically no social culture (the company even admits that in its internal scorecard)