Merck reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(6,162 total reviews)
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83% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

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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1.0
Sep 4, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay, Medical Benefits, Ability to atract talent based on the past, big pharma experience nice to have in your resume.

Cons

Sr. Management lacking vision, simplicity, or clarity to communicate. Millions paid to external consultants to generate solutions. Excessive tolerance for poor performance at the Plain/Executive Director level causes stress across multiple levels. Formerly ran by scientists who cared about technology, deep scientific understanding, and a genuine commitment to getting medicine to patients, now in the hands of money minded people who only care about systematically destroying a legacy of scientific excellence. Lost scientific and technology direction. Not the place for academic excellence or intellectual curiosity.

1.0
Aug 21, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large Company; good benefits; opportunity to learn new preocesses

Cons

No opportunity for advancement; when Merck "took over Schering-Plough", they "laid" off extremely qualified people (including myself) without even being interviewed. Merck took their own employees over Schering-Plough employees who had more knowledge and better skill sets. Merck obviously is a very nasty company, that will resort to any means to get ahead. CEO Frazier should be ashamed of himself for driving a company in this manner.

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