Pros
Cepheid has always had a great mission and has always had great products to back it up. I originally joined Cepheid because of all the groundbreaking innovations they were doing, helping the world with better outcomes for infectious diseases, oncology, etc. This Company used to be a truly innovative one only because of the truly innovative people who used to work here.
Cons
Cepheid was far from perfect before Danaher acquired it, but at least before that you knew the shared purpose. Sure, Cepheid never made much of a profit, or any for that matter. But the quality of the people and the products was really something special. Since acquisition completed in 2016, Danaher's "4 Year Plan" has gone spectacularly well. I hardly know anybody who works here anymore. The brain drain is so bad; you could argue there isn't much brain left. Management all the way up to VP level’s expounding on the virtuous mission of "We hire from within". This is only true in the sense that they hire and promote people who are generally in low, entry level positions. They are hired into positions they are not ready to be in. But because management can get that person to work for way less money then having to pay the experienced dedicated employee, critical positions are filled by people who don't deserve to be in those positions. This reality that we original Cepheid employees live in, is exacerbated by the outside hiring of incompetent and LEAN certified into technical management positions. I actually had a new technical manager say to me, "What does the SOP even say, sorry haven't read it." You mean the very SOP the people you are in charge of have to live or die by on a daily basis? These "DBS/LEAN Goons" are not specific only to Danaher, they can be found at every extremely corporate institution around the world. If you’re young, ready to work hard for little money. Ready to just say "Yes" to whatever your manager says, regardless if it's technically right or not, this is the place for you! I wish you luck though, the favoritism and adherence to DBS is nauseating to any thinking human being. Best Team Wins! (Still Don't Know What That Means). Oh, one last thing the great products that used to exist..... let’s just say LEAN manufacturing practices have brought those great products down to....“less than optimal???”. Good news is they'll be having a KAIZEN and a bunch of people who have no idea what they are talking about will come up with an innovative way to fix things.