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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Highly variable depending on your local team - Staff Mechanical Engineer Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

4.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large, financially stable international corporation.

Cons

Like any large system, you are only recognized within your team. To the larger corporate structure, you are just a number. Upper management sees the big picture, but the quality of your immediate supervisors will vary depending on the individual. Some are very good. Others are atrocious. Your mileage may vary. There is very little innovation within the company. Expansions to the product line are a result of acquisitions, of which there have been many. Individual sites usually retain the character of the companies they were before being acquired.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with advancement potential.

Cons

I wish there were more remote opportunities.

1.0
Jun 20, 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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