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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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A very large and disconnected company - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Dec 28, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This is a good place to work for those in senior management positions. Benefits & tuition reimbursement is fair, days off is decent.

Cons

I have been here for a few years now and there is not much room for growth for me. Depending on which position you are in, growth opportunities will vary. The pay is pathetic here though. I haven't seen too many promotions but the higher ups ALWAYS gets promoted and CONSTANTLY. I have seen GMs get promoted to VPs within a matter of months. The company is so big, it tends to get very unorganized and there isn't much of a brand symmetry although they try to enforce it. Emails get sent out every quarter stating that we have made millions in revenue, yet pay raises is 4% max across the board (if you're lucky that is) and money is ridiculously tight, you barely can do your job with the budgets given.

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Pros

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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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