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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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LSG finance is not a happy place. - Senior Financial Analyst Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Feb 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Base Salary and bonus are pretty good. Med benefits are standard. 15 Days of PTO which technically includes your sick time, but “working from home” when sick does happen. ESPP exists, but discount is smaller than usual. Really nothing overly special other than that it is a large stable company.

Cons

Hard to progress with the amount of favoritism taking place. Even then, they seem more likely to hire from outside than promote from within. Deadlines are often unrealistic. All of their financial systems and data are a disaster. They acquire or restructure their businesses so frequently that it often makes any financial analysis so confusing as to be nearly worthless. Unless you are a director (with an office), you will have zero personal space. You will be seated in a huge open floor, in blocks of six seats, three per side. You will feel like your elbows are basically touching the people next to you, and you can see the people across from you... and that’s just within your block. It didn’t feel like finance was very appreciated there, even within finance, and there was just a general undercurrent of insincerity surrounding everything, especially performance reviews. If you are happy with you current employer, and your happiness is more valuable to you than whatever pay bump you might get here, then I’d recommend staying put.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 20, 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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