Merck Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Strategy and Business Planning Coaching.
Colleagues are friendly but not motivated to advance or change positions.
Great benefits but base salary under industry average.

Cons – Hard to move out of the sales force into management or HQ roles.

Advice to Senior Management – Trust your team to deliver on company strategy

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great new facility, Opportunity to learn and grow, pleanty of opportunities to make advancements if you have the skill sets

Cons – Too far away from Raleigh (personally)
Very rigid managerial style, goal to drive results sometimes unrealistic and affect quality of work/life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Merck full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Peers are very high quality scientifically and as colleagues.

Cons – Constant change in policies and organization results in low morale and inability to take projects to completion.

Advice to Senior Management – Stability and respect to employees will result in greater productivity and a better pipeline.

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than a year

Pros – Advancement Opportunities: Great Salaries: Inclusive Environment

Cons – Long hours: Long distance from home:

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great work life balance, opportunity to adjust working schedule to family needs, great opportunities for development and challenging work. Good benefits. Solid salary and bonus.

Cons – Union shop. Shop floor employees unwilling to change and resistant to continuous improvement because they want to keep old processes and excessive overtime.
Company performance has been good last could of years but annual raises minimal due to company benchmarking and knowing they don't need to pay employees more. Non-aligned, cascading company strategy.

Advice to Senior Management – Expect more from the shop floor, align around a single strategy, get waste and complexity of out our processes.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good basis, strong cash, existing products, existing resource

Cons – slow growth, aging culture, conflict policy

Advice to Senior Management – Cut down unneeded resource

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Merck full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Stable company, talented & dedicated employees, flexible work arrangements, good benefits
If the job doesn't get outsourced it can be very satisfying - interesting projects, exciting to be involved in developing new medicines & vaccines

Cons – Upper management strategy is increasingly to outsource research, focus is all on cutting costs
Used to be a place to make a lifelong career, but management has lost its long-term commitment to the employees

Advice to Senior Management – Speak the truth to upper management about the risks of pushing knowledge out of the company to save money - the quality of the product & science will suffer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Merck full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Solid benefits and management, great people to work with

Cons – pipeline of products slow to launch vs competion

Advice to Senior Management – invest in innovation faster

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Merck full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Solid products, excellent research, commitment to patients. Overall, reps are compensated well with a lot of perks. You don't realize until you leave how valuable the perks and flexibility are. Everyone complains while there but it is a really great gig.

Cons – The usual big company issues, change that makes people happy happens very slowly, but big salesforce changes happen frequently.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up with the openness, transparency and connection to the field. It makes a difference one rep at a time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Merck full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Opportunities to move around the company

Cons – Too many levels of management