Merck Employer Reviews

Arranging appointments with doctors, pharmacists and hospital medical teams
Planning work schedules weekly and monthly

The company atmosphere was very relaxed and quiet. The people are great to work with and helpful. They offer telework option, but not as a regular schedule. If you need to be out of the office, you can still work from home.

They don't offer much training except those that are directly related to the position you're in. The pay isn't too good in the – more...  business operations division. – less

A typical day consisted of 8-10 office visits to educate physicians and staff on medications and managed care status. I was able to learn multiple disease states as well as how to treat them. My co-workers were great and continue to be good friends. The hardest part of this job was always wanting to do more more my customers.
The most enjoyable part – more...  of the job was receiving feed back from the physicians that I called on with patient success stories and knowing that I was making a difference in someones life. – less

Company values work and life balance. It a great place to work

This company showed me the true setting of a corporate office.

Management and micro-management ruined it for me at Merck. Products are great, people are awesome. Management and management processes were too cumbersome.

Great place to work! You grow with the diversify culture and the interesting people you meet that later become long lasting friends. I am grateful for the years of experience in pharmaceuticals (28 yrs.). Previously work for Organon/Schering Plough.

Great place to work. Not easy to get to by car because of traffic and surrounding hospitals and colleges.

Management at this facility is very racist. They do not like people of color, specially if someone comes a foreign country. They are very bias. They do not have no respect for African/American

Supported project teams in fun and fast paced environment, where my initiative was valued and rewarded.

Lots of growth opporunity. Great benefits, great compesation and great work/life balance

Client shared Data plan which would allow a group of users to share their DATA plans’ regarding their personal as well as organizational details such as experience, visa. For illustrative purposes, customers should be able to share Data as on the first entry about all the mandatory details, with the ability of individual group members to alter as and – more...  when required with the drop down links available in the web application. The customer should be able to self-define what resides in the data that is being searched which may be requirement of project or resources. – less

Overall Merck is ok. The plant I work at is just starting up and it is very hard if not impossible to advance in certain job functions. They like to use the phrase "business needs" if they need to. The pay is very good but you really do not get to do what you are good at. You are doing multiple peoples job and they run as LEAN as possible. Overall they – more...  are ok to work for. I enjoyed working in a team environment. The coaches (supervisors) are no help though if you really need some need them. – less

At Merck, you continually hear (from the CEO) that "our employees are the backbone of our business and our greatest asset". The problem - its all talk. As with most big businesses, it all comes down to the almighty dollar. In more than a dozen years at Merck, I learned that no matter how proficient you are at what you do, there is no real appreciation – more...  for the employees. As can be seen with the recent corporate cutbacks, most of the employees that were laid off were loyal employees who had been with the Company from 12 -25 years. Many of us were high performers – but that wasn't even taken into consideration. I think the decision was made based primarily on salary and how much the Company had to put into the employee pension plan. Now they're hiring new, younger employees (at much lower pay) to back fill our positions. Time will tell if the loss of experience will be translated into inefficiencies and compliance issues.

It's all about cutting costs. (Except when it comes down to bonus pay outs for the executive committee.) If the current CEO was really dedicated to his employees, he'd take a cut in pay (he only earned ~ $35 million last year) instead of cutting his "greatest assets". I give a lot of credit to the former CEO, as that is exactly what he did. That was/is true leadership. – less

Political infighting, poor vision from Management, and obese bureaucracy hinder the efficient operation of this once great research company. New management brought in from outside Merck will hopefully improve the situation, but only if more new blood is introduced. The negative culture is heavily entrenched and will be tough to overcome.

Maintained an optical medical archiving system. Job required long hours and major problem solving.

Good team work
Work-life balance
Learned to be a leader
Highest ethical values
Travel is enjoyable

Merck was a very good company to work for. Every day was very busy, and I had to be very organized and self disciplined to fulfill my daily work and additional duties assigned. For the most part, all my co-workers worked together to ensure all the work was completed on a timely basis.

Cricket

Seven President Club Awards, numerous product quarterly awards

In my 7 years at Merck I enjoyed and gained a tremendous amount of knowledge and skills that I didn't have prior to walking into my first position in 2000.