4.0
Mar 7, 2022
Former employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
• Extremely well-managed company • Excellent benefits • History of excellence in scientific research and break-through products • Outstanding career path options if and only if you love living in Northeast and are obsessed with biopharma industry • Philadelphia is a great city to live in
Cons
• As one of the world's top vaccine makers massively bungled COVID-19 vaccination • Slow, bureaucratic • HQ location is miserable: hot, humid, and remote location over an hour from Philadelphia • Merck is basically "a law firm which makes drugs" • Very few options to move up in the company beyond 5 years even at HQ • Merck is effective in sales, but kind of a miserable place to be after 12 months