Production - Anonymous employee Merck Employee Review

3.0
Dec 31, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, retirement benefits are good, quality employees that care about the outcome.

Cons

Excessive work load that prevents project completion: get it started and we'll iron it out later, but later never comes. Job satisfaction difficult to come by. Too much belief in the latest fad: SAP, Six Sigma, Lean....... Previous comment applies here. Failure to recognize talent lacking formal education but steeped in experience and/or intellect. Excessive mid-level management change: with change in leadership comes a corresponding change in process. Refer to first two comments and recognize coupled with new management desire to "Fix it" results in never achieving proficiency before changing again.

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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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