Merck Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Experience working in a QC lab. Learnt new analytical techniques. Good work life balance.

Cons

Poor training: A lot of the initial training involved reading hundreds of online power point style documents over the course of 4 weeks, with only a few of them relevant to the core focus of the role. Contracted through an agency so no job security, poor advancement prospects.

Pros

Excellent pay and benefits. Good work/life balance. Team activities

Cons

Massive favouritism towards some. Very cliquey. If your face doesn't fit you've had it

Pros

Good pay and benefit, salary is good if you have worked with MSD for a long time, friendly culture, some employees stay with the company for many years, good work life balance

Cons

too much office politics, lack of career development opportunity, difficult to get promotion if you are field sales staff

Pros

Projects, salary, benefits, work life balance

Cons

Promotions to exec levels are not necessarily based on accomplishments on priority projects and/or on top yearly reviews. Management picks certain employees to lead initiatives as a path to exec promotion. Employees who want to advance to executive levels need to work with their management to be assigned to initiatives early on to have an eventual shot at at an exec level promotion. If management does not offer such opportunities after a significant period of time (despite very positive yearly reviews) its a nuanced way of conveying that you can still have a satisfying career but not as an executive.