Merck reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(6,162 total reviews)
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82% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Merck has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 6,162 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Merck employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Aug 10, 2010

Diversity=Discrimination

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible time - good benefits; Salary not too great but okay

Cons

Schering plough is now Merck - lot of reorganization going on. Many were laid off. Morale is low and tension/stress is high.

2.0
Aug 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fairly good benefit package and good PTO as well flexible working hours. Highly diverse company.

Cons

The senior management is very incompetent and unfair in decisions related to career advancement. There was a lot of favouritism and disrespect of staf of different cultural background.

2.0
Aug 5, 2010

Red tape, politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance, slightly above average salary package in Singapore, below average salary package compared to the pharma industry.

Cons

Lots of red tape, lots of politics, many of the directors from different departments recruit ex staffs from their previous employment and that resulted in favortism. This is like a kingdom. If you dun belong to that family, u will never be promoted. In my department there will always be people backstabbing you, looking over your shoulders to catch your mistakes and report that upwards. If you just want a 9-5 job and can be very neutral to such politics, have a very cant be bothered attitude over years, it's an ok employment to work for. I have worked with their Quality organisation before and I find them very political as well. Everytime they counter attack with an issue, they are always talking about standard operating procedures. No professionalism. Other than some technical skills which I have acquired, I felt i have wasted my life at schering plough.

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