Thermo Fisher Scientific reviews

Culture is terrible… attitude is that ‘we’re making so much money who cares’ but it is possible to have a balance of a good working environment and still make profit. Managers are very busy positioning themselves and are scared to step out of line. Those that do are usually ( very publicly ) ‘restructured’ out of the business – and definitely don’t look to HR for support they are at the forefront. Bullying is never acceptable.

Company behaves as if it's a small start up with zero cohesion across business units. Each division pretty much does it's own thing. There no real centralization of processes or policies. It's the most disjointed hot mess I've ever seen. In addition, in my entire working career I've never seen a science based company so totally unwilling to invest in infrastructure or R&D. The site I worked at I quickly found out they let a roof leak persist for 5 years so that when it would rain, staff would have to cover equipment and couldn't work in that lab space. 5 YEARS they let this happen before finally fixing the roof. The areas they call "labs" are also a joke. It's something you'd expect from a poorly funded academic lab, not a multi-national global company. They also overtax staff, they are fond of heaping 2-3 people's worth of responsibilities onto one person and only pay you really about 2/3 the salary of one of those jobs. After seeing behind the curtain, I'll never look at Thermo or Fisher products the same way again.