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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Top mgmt is very ham-fisted in their employee relations. Sales success this year is punished next year. - Sales Representative Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

3.0
Sep 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

First line supervisors work incredibly hard and lead by example. High brand name recognition gets you in front of a lot of customers. Lots of growth opportunities in the company (mostly lateral) Company has been giving sales better tech support

Cons

This year's success is punished with unreasonable goals/numbers, causing many of the best reps leave the company within a few years. Top management is terrible at employee communications A commission plan so complicated that no one on the sales team or management or even payroll can explain it coherently. ThermoFisher has so many divisions, often you're competing with sales reps from your own company.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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