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Just don't - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most people you will work with are highly educated and knowledgeable. PTO time is good. Benefits are good, especially health insurance.

Cons

Very cliquish. Toxic team environments. People don't matter, only revenue. They will work you until you drop even if they can afford to hire another body to help out. Some very toxic leaders who contaminate those who report to them. Your performance is based on a comparison to everyone else's performance in your team/group even if you do completely different jobs and it is highly subjective. Performance reviews are very old school and out-of-date, they don't help you to succeed. Promotions are based on if your boss likes you, or if you are part of the "in" crowd, not based on your actual performance. They don't help you succeed, and it sometimes feels like they purposely stand in your way of succeeding. Getting what you need when you first start is a nightmare. Training? What training? Diversity is highly limited in every way. Clearly it isn't valued because it isn't there.

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Compensation does not match the workload. You will be overworked and underpaid, and when you bring it up, nothing changes. I repeatedly asked leadership to let me take on work that aligned with my career goals and education, but I was always "too busy" with my regular responsibilities for that to happen. They'll happily benefit from your output but won't invest in your growth. The tuition reimbursement policy changed while I was mid-degree, which tells you everything about how they view employee development. Benefits are underwhelming for a company this size, and when I needed them most, they fell short. A workplace injury made it very clear where employees fall on their priority list, and it's well below the bottom line.

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