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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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So so bad - Director Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
17 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some roles are allowed to be flexible SOME

Cons

Where to start? Medical insurance for a family is $863 a MONTH JUST medical. The HR processes here are all manufacturing based and probably written in 1983. IF you can speak to someone in HR. We buy new companies yet lay current staff off. The head of HR when you hear her speak is condescending arrogant narcissist. No promotion budget for current employees and I have to take away merit from my successful performers to increase merit for my small group of high performers. Toxic is the word I would use for the culture. If you want to be worked to death and not recognized this is the place for you. If you want most of your paycheck to go to health benefits this place is for you. If you want to set your career back 20+ years in policy and process this place is for you. If you want to be forced to go in the office five days a week just to be SEEN not to actually collaborate this place is for you. The old PPD folks are all waiting for the economy to get better so they can jump ship as the culture has shifted and it’s just so toxic.

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Pros

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Cons

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Recommend
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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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