Overworked and cliquey - Laboratory Technician Merck Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Vacations days Holiday pay Benefits Safety program- even though I think it’s a joke

Cons

Management is in the air/not even trained or knowledge of what is done in departments. For example if someone called off sick management doesn’t have the ability to step in and help!? Breaks seem to be the least priority as employees think they have to keep pushing product out before taking a break or no lunch break at all...poor company policy OSHA would have a cow!!! HR has no interest in helping personal issues within company policies. They just tell you to take care of it..once again OSHA hello?! Older employees take advantage of younger coworkers to lay all work on them.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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