Merck reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(6,172 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 6,172 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
4.0
Jul 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good place to get solid experience in manufacturing environment, great place for recent grads to work. - Highly ethical in practices and policies. Driving to consistency across the board in policies and procedures - Promote employee speaking up (courage and candor) - Compensation, though reduced, is within market ranges

Cons

- Very elitist and level conscious leaders. Recent compensation restructuring was oriented toward keeping executives and high level officials well-paid, all other professionals were stuffed in general buckets, reducing salary ranges, performance bonuses and long term incentives (non existent below management level). - Continuous downsizing since about 2003, each year depts must provide headcount reductions with significant increases in workload (no workload analysis allowed). The workload has become ridiculous - absolutely no work-life balance.

4.0
Jul 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The facilities are top notch. There is an onsite gym with complimentary gym clothes wash and dry. There are flexible work hours to accommodate people with families or who need to adopt an early or late schedule. There is a strong sense of community there and the feel is that people are happy to work there. There is also a shuttle from the NJ Transit -Rahway station to the Rahway site so taking public transportation is easy.

Cons

At the time, there were only 2 weeks of vacation, but I believe that has changed to make it more competitive with other companies. The onsite gym membership is not free but comparable to outside gym membership.

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