Merck reviews

Chemistry management simply does not care about discovering drugs. They treat the department like an academic institution by emphasizing visibility, publications, and external presentations above all else. First line management (Directors) are more or less ineffective. They have too many direct reports, and their seldom interaction with them leads to them being out of touch and disconnected from the lab workers. This further leads to year-end reviews that honestly look like they're just guessing. Promotions are inscrutable. Management refuses to provide any clarity to the process. Playing games and politicking helps, but your work certainly doesn't.

Lack of organization and structure, antiquated systems, so much in house work put on traveling CRAs, management has no clue on how to improve things regardless of what they say.