High quality likable people. Poor senior leadership and Company direction - Senior Process Engineer Merck Employee Review

2.0
Nov 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The people I work with daily are great hard-working individuals who do genuinely care about the quality of their work and the product that leaves the door. They understand that the product is for the people of the world and will never sacrifice quality to make an extra dollar. A tremendous amount of data is available from multiple systems that are harmonized. The work-life balance is attainable.

Cons

Senior leadership is more concerned with attaining KPIs and schedule adherence than producing a high quality product that the customer expects. Professional development is lacking compared to it competitors where contributors are placed into positions that they has no experience or desire to pursue without prior knowledge of the transition in some cases. Majority of work day is spent in meetings.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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