Schering-Plough Reviews

Pros

Flexible, Parent friendly. Very nice envoronment. Provides equal balance of Challenge and Reward

Cons

hectic at times and information sharing can be improved.

Advice to Senior Management

Use the tricke down effect. Dont be afraid to passs on information to the littl eguy : you can only help him do a better job by doign so.

Pros

proud of personal accomplishments allowed time to work on. good benefits. good 401k plans.

Cons

do not promote from within, always go outside for management positions. not alot of opportunity to for self growth via outside seminars/events etc

Advice to Senior Management

more appreciation towards employees, more ample rewards for job well done.

Pros

The people in your group, direct management tends to very supportive. They focus on potential and upward growth.

Cons

HR. HR is not supportive and only looking out for dollars not people. HR is hard to trust and will not look out for the best interested in of the people they “support.” They only care about showing the CEO how they saved, even if it negatively effects a department or person.

Advice to Senior Management

They need to empower the organization. Stop approving every $5 invoice and start worry about the bigger picture. If they work for you trust them to do the right thing, if you don’t trust them they should not work for you. There are better ways to manage control then taking it all way.

Pros

Professionalism, big & respected company.

Cons

Unclear carrer path, there is no planing for mid management

Advice to Senior Management

Because Schering Plough has a lean company structure themid management segment is large and has no clear view of their opportunities, this factor contributes on the lossing of great talent.

Pros

It is an international company with a diversity of job opportunities. It has a very ellaborated clinical operations estructure, especially in Latin America with a numerous importan positions to run th clinical trials. Currently there are 12 compounds in the late stage of research with promissing new products in the future in therapeutic ares like Central Nervous System, HIV, cardiology, inmunology, oncology, respiratory system, women´s health, and others.

Cons

Terrible an obsolete compensation packages. They are not in the market average. The compensations department should ve more carefully in the way the compensation packages are set up so that they retain talent within the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Look more carefully in the way compensation packages are set up

Pros

Pays well, reasonable work/life balance and in general, people are nice.

Cons

Extremely political - for career advancement you have to brown nose the correct people, which are few and far between. Promotions are not based on skill set but rather who you know.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership behaviors are viewed as lip service by the people who actually do the work and we would appreciate it if you stopped insulting our intelligence.

Pros

1) Schering-Plough is a high paying employer within the Pharma industry. The bonus structure is one of the best and they are very generous with the annual pool allocated.
2) Schering-Plough is very structured and the HR policies are detailed. They try to develop employees in several ways.
3) Schering offers the freedom to venture in areas outside your comfort zone, even if that is a development opportunity- in important projects. Usually in a big corporation the size of Schering, employees tend to be in silos.

Cons

The motivation level at present is at rock bottom after the Merck aquistion.A large part of this has to do with the uncertainity. Several employees (including myself) have worked very hard for the past 6 years, only for the EMT to leave at the end of the year.

Advice to Senior Management

What is the point in selling the company (although it makes sense $$$ wise) after preaching leader behaviors and other ideals for 6 years?

Pros

Working at Schering Plough was very good experience for me , schering plough is always keen to implement new software and systems . This is a very good advantage that i got.

Cons

In Schering plough some times management empoloyee comunications were missing.

Advice to Senior Management

Management has to implement good projects

Pros

No one knows if you are working or not. It's a "WallyWorld". Good severance packages coming when Merck cut all of our jobs, Just ride thewave until the severances come. 6 months of pay...

Cons

No management direction. The best have already been fired in the name of cost cutting. The management that is left is deluded into thinking that anything they do now matters. Hello--You have been bought out. Your job is over! No one likes each other or even speaks. It is as bad as anyone could ever imagine. The place sucks!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Sell, They listened!!!

Pros

Its a great company the people are friendly and helpful. We have very good benefits and vacation time when you start at the company you are given 3 weeks vacation time and 2 personal days. Some departments allow their employees to work from home. There are several different sites so you may be able to work in a location close to home. Schering-Plough's campuses are very nice and they have cafe's on site and even a gym at one of their locations. We do have a PMP system so you know how your manager rates you, but often the feedback is minimal unless you are not doing your job.

Cons

Promotions - its a long difficult process to get a promotion even with excellent PMP ratings. It seems to be promised a lot but does not actually happen.
Lack of recognition - we have Shinning Performance program, but it is extremely under used in some departments. I feel that when people go above and beyond that they should be given credit.
Salaries aren't great and its difficult to get raises - if you come into the company at a low salary it is hard to get "bumped-up". I've heard that 10% is the cap, but I am not sure if that is true.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your employees
recongize when something is done well and they go above and beyond
use the shinning performance to reward colleagues
don't continue to support colleagues who can't / won't do their jobs