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      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (6,164 total reviews)
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      Rob Davis

      83% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,164 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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      6K reviews
      3.0
      Nov 20, 2016

      pharmacentical discovery

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      strong commitment to new drug discovery

      Cons

      frequent change in management team and discovery strategy

      1.0
      Nov 18, 2016

      Sorry to say I once worked there....

      Senior scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company portrays that they have great benefits. However once you looking into each of their benefits you quickly realize they have these sneaky little policies to offset them. Take for instance they offer life insurance but it ends when you turn 65. Than their Long term disability plan is a welfare funded plan so anything you collect on LTD you have to pay the company back entirely for the amount. They have gotten working women awards but I have no idea how as 400 female employees have a class action lawsuit for discriminating and not paying them the same as their male peers. Their benefits appear to be good but look into each and you will quickly find that they are some of the worst out there. A very sneaky and unethical company. Sorry to say I once worked there...

      Cons

      Nothing really good about working there.

      2.0
      Nov 15, 2016

      District Manager

      District manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great colleagues, excellent benefits, including medical, 401K, pension when I started. Most managers care about their people.

      Cons

      Pension will move to cash balance in 2020, medical is now expensive and coverage is lousy. Upper management (CEO, VPs, etc) are milking this company dry. Lay people off but yet CEO collects millions in stock options. Will face patent expiry on many products and will become specialty driven

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