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 Farmacêutica e biotecnologia industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Sep 12, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The yearly bonuses in the Pharma industry are very high.

Cons

- The gap between leadership and employees is huge - Higher management has no direction and they tend to interfere a lot in engineering decisions (without having any engineering background) - Terrible company culture - they're not too interested in employee issues - they'd rather replace people than change something on their end - Overall mentality is that they are not an IT company and the processes reflect that. Everything is slow and the tooling is outdated - I guess in 2022 companies cannot afford to not be IT companies at some level. - Every management decision is heavily politicized - to a point where it is not clear if they have the company's best interest - Very little (or very hard to receive) support for personal development - HR is not very helpful when it comes to supporting employees.

4.0
Jun 2, 2022

MSD-PRAGUE

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Nice salary and good range of benefits -International envoirnment, nice people but there is some exceptions on it -home office was sponsored also before the COVID -company parties in June and December

Cons

-if you have a manager not interested in your performance, it is practically impossible to growth within the company and it is a pity because the overall envoirnment it's good -some ATR manager is arrogant and not respectful

2.0
Mar 31, 2022

Difficult personnel navigation

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Employees and managers are generally friendly people that want to try to help. The work environment really was nice on a personal level, and management seems to want to perpetuate that culture.

Cons

Apparently pretty typical of this kind or workplace, the divide between unionized and non-unionized personnel is cumbersome. Any issues with personnel, workload, role shifts, or schedule changes are extremely difficult to navigate because of employee restrictions in place and interpretations of the union contracts. Because of this, every personnel related issue becomes a negotiation to navigate, even though both sides of the divide usually sincerely want to help. Group managers are forced to be bosses rather than leaders and just have to wait for peaceful pushback from their employees, or support from their own managers or HR, about any decisions made. Employees aren't necessarily difficult, but rather, the lines drawn are difficult to manage. The systems in place are outdated and convoluted. Systems used for ordering supplies, data management, SOP authoring and revision, error investigations, etc… are outdated or convoluted compared to peer companies. For a site as big as it is, IT and HR are completely understaffed and absolutely cannot support the site's needs.

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