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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Stay away if you can - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Jan 9, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not many, Some of the other employees are nice.

Cons

Lack of coordination. very chaotic work environment. Management likes to brag about the so called "work life balance" that we have, but it's virtually non-existent. Very high stress. I've never worked at a place where some employees will actively seek out things people have done wrong to purposely get them in trouble. They can't even make up for all this with decent pay. Thermofisher is an 18 billion dollar company and they cant even provide a decent Thanksgiving or Christmas lunch. They're both funded by the employees.

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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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