big pharma pros and cons

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Ahead of our deeper Pharma 50 analysis of top pharma firms’ performance, this new 2024 analysis provides a timely snapshot of cultural and innovation metrics across eight of the leading Big Pharma firms. Looking closely at the pivotal issue of “Big Pharma work culture 2024,” we examine data and reviews from the employee site Glassdoor, the female employee resource InHerSight and insightful employee comments on the social media site Reddit.

To rank the pharmaceutical companies, we converted their Glassdoor overall ratings, benefits scores, recommendation rates, and InHerSight overall scores to a uniform scale out of 100, weighing the overall score, benefits, recommendation rate and InHerSight scores equally.

Merck comes in on top

Among the major pharmaceutical companies compared, Merck & Co. fared best with an overall score of 82.75. It also had the highest overall Glass…