MSD reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(2,397 total reviews)
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Rob Davis

85% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

MSD has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,397 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MSD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Feb 6, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

None I can think of. There are better companies.

Cons

- Being a foreigner, I experienced racism and clear discrimination. It stems from leadership and HR is actually useless as they are influenced by the leadership, especially UK HR. - It is not a meritocracy, there's a widespread "kiss up, kick down" culture and you need to be able to play the game to get promoted, instead of focusing on actual science. Maybe this is a US company culture thing since my colleagues in other European competitor companies don't experience this. - Feedback for leadership is asked every year an literally no changes happen. Why? because nobody cares and if it's brought up, you are punished. - On the surface, diversity and inclusion is important but dig a little deeper and see the truth. Nobody cares about this, it's actually all a show. Just look at the leadership team it is nearly all white.

1.0
Jun 11, 2024

Terrible Management

Recommend
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Pros

Pay - about it, some lovely talented people but sadly only the bullies received progression opportunities.

Cons

Terrible weak management, inability to speak up and raise challenges without being perceived as difficult, inconsistent policies applied to a select number of favourites (the ones willing to suck up to leadership teams). Illogical wfh policy. Work life balance is out of control. Competence is rewarded with a staggering and unsustainable workload.

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