Low morale - Anonymous employee Merck Employee Review

2.0
Jul 20, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to build a base in your career.

Cons

The constant threat of layoffs turns the employees into their worst ways, making the work environment hostile and disruptive. You can expect someone will try to throw you under the bus if something goes awry. You can also expect that you will not get compensated when you inherit a role (or 2) from someone who got laid off. There is minimum support on projects/tests because everyone else is inundated with other projects. As a result, obtaining results/answers/responses are delayed and the work hours are long and intense.

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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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