Very supportive and open environment - Associate Engineer Merck Employee Review

3.0
Dec 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Despite Mercks size, working within a particular brand gives a sense of a small personal environment where one can direclty generate meaningful contributions. People are quite helpful if you just ask, and in general it is fairly easy to gather the necessary support to execute an idea so long as you are able to clearly present its benefit to the company.

Cons

There is a significnat lack of visibility into what other products are being developed, and ongoings within the company that can leave one feeling quite silo-ed. On the managerial side mid level managers are quite poor people managers, especially in the technical areas, that do not promote employee development, leaving the employees with a lack of purpose and unclear future.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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