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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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If you can, stay away! - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are really great: 3 weeks of PTO, Many options of insurance plans, Good 401k, life insurance, short and long term disability.

Cons

The culture of the company is pretty much trying to find a guilty when something goes wrong. People do not work together to resolve and improve things, instead, departments work apart and when there is something that is not right, they try to blame each other (finger point). There is a huge resistance to change process and the way things are done and they keep doing things the same way they used to do 20 years ago. Upper management does not hear lower level and understand problems and what needs to be done for things to be more functional and easier. Lower management does not understand the job and their own departments processes and try to put in place processes that just do not work.

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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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