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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Decent place to start (I work at CRG, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) - Assistant Scientist Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

3.0
27 Apr 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

CRG has some flexibility with the work hours. You may have a typical time you go in but can come in at other times as long as it falls within your shift period (i.e. normally clock in at 8am but can come in at 7am or 9am as well). You have the capability working a different shift if approved by your manager. You either work 1st or 2nd shift, with 2nd shift offering a $3 boost on top of the base salary.

Cons

Thermo Fisher has stripped several benefits that made CRG more appealing: ending incentivized overtime, ending PTO carrying over to next calendar year, restricting overall overtime. Promotions are not being approved for deserving employees. There are several employees, at the bench analyst level, who are still awaiting promotions that were on track to approval before a 'promotional freeze' hit the company, Some people have been waiting for at least a year to get promoted with no word on when promotions will start back up.

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5.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong management and benefits and work life balance

Cons

Low pay and low yearly increases/ bonuses. Can be hard to advance

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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