Merck reviews

Opportunity/ Promotion is non-existant (I've personally been rated at the top of my level for 5 years straight, with constant promises for promotion but no action- there's always an excuse). Yearly salary increases have become a joke. Average in 2011 was 1.8%. Often given a lot of responsibility and expected to over deliver, but not empowered to make the decisions/ changes necessary. Little management support. With the current environment (layoffs, numerous reorgs, understaffed area, etc), people have become distrusting, frustrated, and difficult to work with. Many have lost their passion for their job. Benefits declining over recent years. Technology is way behind industry norm. Over worked in multiple areas, no resources, starting to see a lot of negative impact to the business and processes. Concerned for future.

The demand for data is so driving that many of our project due dates seemed to be due the day before we received the project of which always put a great deal of pressure to produce hard data fast which can and did lead to mistakes which caused delays. Also, though upper management was very good at information distribution, local management wasn't as forthcoming and so often times we knew what was going on in the greater company more than we did in our own site. The last is that unless you have a Ph.D. career advancement opportunities at this company are minimal.