Merck reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(6,165 total reviews)
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Rob Davis

82% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,165 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
Dec 9, 2014

CCM-GP

Recommend
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Pros

Great place to begin your career. Brilliant people to work with. Competitive salary and benefits. Flexible work schedule. With regards to the GP team, very good communication and acceptance to new ideas.

Cons

Very hard to move to other opportunities within the company or get promoted unless you know the right people. It's who you know rather than what you know. With this said, will likely outgrow the company with in five years. Health benefits are good, but getting worse every year. Finance department has a reputation of pulling people into large scale high profile projects and then laying them off after successful implementation. Huh!! Finance tends to promote inexperienced people into director positions rather than promote experienced individuals who have been working in that capacity for 5+ years. Their philosophy is "a true leader can manage any area". Not working out so well.

2.0
Nov 19, 2014

Gets in its own way.

Recommend
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Pros

People try, hopeful for change, but management isn't equipped to enable it. (and that's my "pro")

Cons

Merger with Schering-Plough after 5+ years is still lingering with an "us"/"them" perspective. For new employees, beware of the "this is how we've always done it" approach, even though management purports the opposite. Proof that just because it's in a powerpoint deck doesn't make it so.

4.0
Nov 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Provided employees with training opportunities, internal and external programs were available. Were serious about building a great team and a standard basis/approach for how to do things right.

Cons

As there were several divisions one could find that there was a timing issue with rolling out common programs, some would be further advanced than others.

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