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      Merck reviews

      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (6,162 total reviews)
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      Rob Davis

      83% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,162 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
      2.0
      Dec 17, 2013

      No real sense of direction and focus, a sinking ship.

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some great and talented people work here.

      Cons

      No direction and leadership. Poor managerial behaviors tolerated and encouraged. Gross misconduct and mistreatment of employees. Morale is low and yet they offer no real solutions for this. Talk is cheap and actions are absent.

      2.0
      Nov 8, 2013

      15 year employee, various roles

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Merck once offered an experience like no other, great people and science. It was the "Google" of Pharma. It had one of the most enriching work cultures a person could find. I was lucky to get the job...

      Cons

      The company no longer relies on science or innovation. Today's Merck is about the bottom line and uses employee reductions as a way to manage the company. Not an innovative way to manage such a great company.

      1.0
      Oct 25, 2013

      Superior Schering-Plough Culture destroyed by Merck Mediocrity

      Associate director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None left to list since the legacy old Merck way of do nothing, change nothing persists.

      Cons

      The Merck culture destroyed a great focused Schering-Plough culture that was grounded by real responsibility and pride in performance. The merger was a bad idea and destroyed one great company (Schering) and delayed the ongoing decline of a poor company (Merck) that has been under bad leadership for decades.

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