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Not Worth the Effort - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Aug 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Results always seem come out strong each quarter, which is great for shareholders and employee stock holdings; despite inefficiencies, ineptness, and layers of protected long service leaders who seem not to be accountable to delivery outcomes but drive up costs. Carlsbad is a great location to be based

Cons

Downright inept leadership, a "yes" culture required up to the CEO, recycled leadership at the top levels that is change averse, closed to new ideas that can impact and contribute. Culture in LSG is toxic, people exit and are made to feel when they've resigned, and have money thrown at to retain, and still decide to exit, that they are now the problem. Retaliatory culture, and one where long standing/service relationships to the old boy network thrive. Culture of keeping your mouth shut, head down, don't try to affect change, and that's the best way to survive and get promoted.

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Pros

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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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