Merck reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(6,177 total reviews)
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Rob Davis

81% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,177 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
Oct 17, 2019
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Pros

Merck is an excellent company with quality leadership.

Cons

However, this industry and company has changed dramatically. If you want to impact healthcare this is a great place to do it but understand there are significant challenges now that didn't exist just a few years ago: 1. R&D is harder and more expensive, 2. the public and most levels of government generally do not understand the complexity of healthcare at all and mostly think by simply passing a single piece of legislation all of healthcare's issues will be resolved (targeting pharmaceuticals), 3. access to providers is 4x harder than it was 10 years ago, and 4. the med-legal red tape just keeps getting deeper. Bottom line: this industry just went from "easy / moderate" to "stressful". This industry is about to shrink a little in headcount and become a little leaner and more efficient. The political climate may adversely impact the industry. Hopefully not.

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