At the individual level, a great place to work. - IT Analyst Merck Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are plenty of career advancement opportunities, and switching career tracks is encouraged. Mangement advocates cross-training employees, which then results in a well-rounded skill set. Especially in recent years, both low-performers and high-performers are recognized and handled accordingly. This means that the vast majority of your team members are extremely competent and knowledgeable, and you have the opportunity to interface and learn with some of the best.

Cons

The majority of the day-to-day policies are "up to your manager's discretion", meaning if you have a good manager, work/life balance and ability to take vacation or personal days are great. If you do not have a good manager, you are out of luck.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits like medical/dentist/vision, pension, stock option, 401k match. Co workers are excellent, pretty good on site symposiums, lot of diversity clubs/activities. Innovation is extremely welcomed. Diversity in research portfolio. AI/ML is heavily invested to make databases more efficient.

Cons

Micro managing, especially within the biologics department, potentially others. Promotions are limited, and pay bump is poor. Company invests too much in buying companies rather than keeping talent - lay offs let go of great talented people. Merck is afraid of investing into exploratory biology and doesn’t take risk - they even admit they would rather see other companies clinical data or R&D data rather than taking a risk. Although it’s slow going in building new software, current databases are slow and needs much improvement. Extremely poor work/life balance.

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