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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Too many chiefs, not enough indians. - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

3.0
31 Aug 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent work/life balance. The local employees are absolutely wonderful to work with. Excellent 401k plan and decent health benefits. Salary is about average for the industry.

Cons

Upper management rearranged almost monthly, along with company objectives. Serious problem with over management of projects. "Managers managing managers" with an unfortunate few underlings actually doing all the work. Corporate culture is antiquated and not in line with a modern workplace. "Big Red" as a whole, is a holding company. There is no innovation from the inside, they simply purchase innovative companies, pillage their patents and lay off the employees after a knowledge drain. Since my small company was acquired a few years ago, I have watched the "small company" tight-knit atmosphere fade and be replaced by corporate boredom, red tape, and a complete lack of job security. Revolving door of talent leaving. Folks remaining are simply waiting for the "other shoe to drop."

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Cons

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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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