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Thermo Fisher Scientific - Are you looking elsewhere or what? - IT Support Specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Oct 2, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

I worked on the IT side of the business, in a separate building about 4 miles away from the main offices. Although my commute was about an hour each way it was more convenient than having to drive all the way to the main office in heavy traffic. And that's literally the BEST thing I can say about the company.

Cons

The atmosphere at the company was extremely depressing. Although I worked in IT and had experience working on a help desk, I was relegated to what I likened to a Laverne And Shirley episode....Screwing the bottle caps on beer bottles all day. Complete drudgery doesn't even BEGIN to describe the work day. I literally started looking for another job about a month after I started there, and ended up leaving (a full time job with benefits!) for a 6 month contract job because I wanted to retain my sanity. My co-workers were about as dull and unimaginative as any I have ever worked with with 1 exception. It was like working with robots - no personalities, no room for suggestion, no imagination. Just toe the company line and keep plugging away.

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5.0
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Pros

Strong management and benefits and work life balance

Cons

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1.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
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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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