Run for the hills! - Anonymous employee Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Employee Review

- Toxic politics at all levels. General chaos and lack of leadership encourages employees to work against each other. People spend much of their time scheming and trying to out-maneuver their peers. If you work here, you won't be able to trust anyone. - Low-quality science and product candidates. Antibody drug programs generally target "yet another receptor tyrosine kinase" picked from the literature. Lack of scientific rationale is then covered up by flashy but pointless "network biology". - Blatant favoritism towards computational scientists ("modelers"), who get handed all important and interesting assignments. If you are an experimental scientist, understand that Merrimack only wants you to do the grunt work, and that you will not have the same career opportunities as the computational scientists. - There seems to be a senseless gender war going on, waged in large part by some of the senior female management.