Not a happy place to be. - werkgeversreview Staff Biochemist bij Merck

2,0
26 mei 2014
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Salary and benefits were decent. My department had nice people and good teambuilding events.

Minpunten

The atmosphere is pretty negative due to constant attrition. No one ever knows if they'll have a job in 6 months;. Also, a lot non-management scientists are "do-ers", not thinkers- management often didn't trust intelligent lower-level scientists to think for themselves. Promotions are also extremely hard to come by, but former colleagues recently told me that they're beginning to promote again.

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5,0
30 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

Excellent company to work with.

Minpunten

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4,0
30 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

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.

Minpunten

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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