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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Rewarding work, but leadership needs to keep up with the times - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

4.0
4 Aug 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Positive work environment with empathic direct and middle-management and great cross-functional teams • Annual bonuses with occasional discretionary bonuses throughout the year • Good 401k matching • Fulfilling projects that make a positive impact on customers and the world

Cons

• Corporate leadership resists hybrid and remote work arrangements for all positions even in geographic regions where hybrid/remote models are more successful, and even though everyone attends every meeting on a Zoom/Teams call anyway. This makes it difficult to attract and retain talent in a post-pandemic world. • Career development opportunities are difficult to navigate and are often impossible without relocation • Low total compensation and benefits compared to similar industries. • PTO is pooled between vacation and sick, and is "Use it or Lose It" - if you have remaining PTO hours at the end of the year, they just vanish. This is true even in states that require unused sick hours be rolled over even if they're pooled • They over-hired during the pandemic and are laying off talent en-masse throughout 2023 to satisfy shareholders. Layoffs are given without warning and is more often than not done to high performers who weren't even hired during the pandemic.

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5.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company with advancement potential.

Cons

I wish there were more remote opportunities.

1.0
20 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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