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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Stay away - GLDP Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
17 May 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

*work life balance in some roles *One of the best pay for HR folks. HR is the most powerful function in this company. They benchmark their salaries to highest levels of industry. *Job stability. If you are not ambitious, you can keep doing the same job for 20 years. They wont fire you. * No up or out policy. No forced curve fitting.

Cons

*Poor pay for internal promotions and level if you are below director level. *Prefers to hire external candidates at higher pay than promote capable internal candidates with similar raises. *Very Frugal employer- Corporate office is pathetic; Pittsburgh office is newly built and represents the legacy of Fisher Scientific.

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5.0
20 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility, Culture, Opportunity, Compensation, Experience

Cons

Communication can be heavy and difficult to process due to abundance. Not really a con, just part of being a large company

1.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you're stuck in the Greenville area for some unfortunate reason, it's a job.

Cons

This place is functionally a mafia. The same rotating cast of "old head" people that have been at the site for decades watches each other's backs, and overworks everyone else. God help you if you're actually capable or smart, because they will overload you as much as possible, while ensuring that they, and their pals, do as little as possible. They really have no concept of capacity management at all. There is no math, metrics, or even mild logic that goes in to how they define R&R or distribute work. No one really knows how to do anything at all. Things that sound simple, like shipping a sample for instance.. Well, clear your afternoon. It doesn't help that all of their systems are completely antiquated. I should also note that you won't get any support on anything really, from training to execution. No one wants to be here, and it's so obvious. The place looks and feels like a prison because it is. It doesn't even pay that well compared to other pharma companies! That barbed wire isn't there to keep people out, it's to keep them in.

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