Growing Company, Very Difficult Culture - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

The culture and leadership style are like the military. The boss tells you what to do, and you do it, no questions asked. Any comment that is contrary to what anyone else says is taken as a negative comment, even when you are not trying to be negative, but constructive. There is a true fear of having an open and honest conversation, as the discussion will be held against you. You will be labeled as "not a team player" and that is how people may talk about you. Once this happens, your time at Thermo is limited. They have a very high turnover rate. This is due to the fact that 1. they let a lot of people go, and 2. a lot of people want to leave due to the difficult culture. This leads to an unbalanced work / personal life. I typically work 12 hour days and some time on weekends. As they "reorganize," which is another name for downsizing, doing the same work with fewer people, the workload gets more difficult. Now their employment is growing, but you need to realize they are acquiring more and more companies. I had a woman work for me for 3 years, and she was happy and worked hard without me asking her to. She moved to a new boss who is more inline with the culture here, and she has been on the phone crying to me in the last 3 months several times. The sad part is no one can say anything to management or HR because then their job is in jeopardy. They are not a "team player." Last, one way they manage their cost is they let go of older talent, who also tend to be more expensive. They don't value the experience of the older employees, and thus, they just cut them to save the money. Then, they put someone with much less experience, or no experience in their place, and tell them to just do the job with minimal training.