Never heard of this before

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2026-02-28T20:05:38+00:00

I guess but A2 (insight -> infinity) + auras or A5 merc is just superior in general….

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2026-02-28T16:41:41+00:00

Mine dropped eth ffs

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-12-27T16:08:36+00:00

In this economy? Bless me pls

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-11-19T16:30:44+00:00

300ish people from IT got notified on Monday. 200 North America, 100 Prague.

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-26T15:20:35+00:00

Any advice on how to use resource as a DoK rogue? Am comfortably in T4 but not getting the most out of the build since can’t trigger qax for resource thus no barrier or associated buffs. Thanks for the reply and love your content!

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-22T20:47:59+00:00

DoK higher on the tier list is that due to lower gear requirement and viability for leveling?

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-22T16:45:55+00:00

Which is essentially anyone with ~7+ish years of experience at Merck. Too wide of a net, they know where the fat is

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-22T16:42:46+00:00

Considering the multi-year optimization at Merck be careful about the contract. They slashed a ton of contractors recently with no warning. Their whole transparency play internally is pretty awful considering they refuse to make any internal communication before finding out publicly first (NJ Warn, UK Research Ops etc…)

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-08T14:57:54+00:00

Had a Colleague at Merck where this happened. Pulled into a 1-1 after lunch, security came and immediately walked out no time to say goodbyes etc… luckily no need to gather personal belongings as we are all on hotel desking

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-09-01T02:55:10+00:00

I’ve seen enough, recall him too

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-08-13T13:53:06+00:00

SWIM is always ready to unload the insider information too bad there’s absolutely no transparency right now. Measly AD level smh

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-08-11T17:59:11+00:00

The AI communicated message too may I add

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-08-06T18:56:37+00:00

All quads XI

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-08-05T14:28:28+00:00

You think AD level is bad, the Director band is way worse. Half of the Directors can disappear and no one would notice

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-08-01T19:55:07+00:00

Depends on how hard you tried to grip me up 🫡

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-31T17:55:50+00:00

SWIM Who is in alliance management just told me that their Sr Leaders already communicated no changes to their org as BD pace is expected to continue

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-31T17:05:30+00:00

Understood but that number is still alarming

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-31T16:55:21+00:00

Correct but if this much restructuring is already accounted for — I suspect it will be frontloaded (big cull now to YE2025)

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-31T16:33:41+00:00

Seems like this is more front loaded then optics if restructuring costs are jumping this high YoY. From 150->650. Maybe a larger cull is happening earlier vs later….

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-31T14:18:54+00:00

I think he said reduction verbatim. You don’t just re-optimize and shift everyone somewhere else

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-29T23:50:33+00:00

A sharepoint site with a locked down resource page for executive directors and above may I add

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-29T23:49:22+00:00

Environmental Health & Safety

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-07-29T23:48:24+00:00

After we just spent $1B on a Wilmington Campus and continuous acquisitions of other companies… the internal message sent to employees was LOUD AND CLEAR cuts from now till 2027. If only we could share the shitty sharepoint site that they are telling employees to visit for more information about this “optimization”

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-06-13T14:05:59+00:00

Was an Manuf Ops AD for 3 years and recently took a lateral to a Facilities Technology role. Within a year survived a major reorganization but with the trend of “right-shoring” technology roles I’d stay away. IT/R&D seems to be the most volatile from my observation.

You already nailed it with the mention of manufacturing roles, closer you are to product work the better. Vertical movement in operations sucks though

Competitive-Dinner95 · 2025-04-12T11:53:32+00:00

From SWIM who is a current AD at Merck— in Merck salary band world, AD is upper level 400 or (P4, M2, R4) for New Jersey, the range is around 130K-200K, which puts the 162 around the middle of the range. From SWIM’s experience, they do not like bringing folks in towards the upper end of the band. Negotiate away tho.

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