PerkinElmer reviews

Little or no promotion from within. Upper management need to have 360 reviews done. But then HR only does what upper management tells them so nothing will change. Getting top-heavy hiring VP's from outside the company who want to remake PerkinElmer like the last place they worked. If that worked so well, why aren't they still there? Internal people with vast knowledge and expertise are not listened too and eventually forced out. They end up working at competitors and are much happier. Technology platforms are out of date. Constant restructuring. Yearly layoffs, usually done right before Thanksgiving. No rhyme or reason as to who goes or who stays. Morale is a joke..

Outrageous turnover across critical departments. Lack of successful new product development and next generation technology. No clear informatics vision to the market. Instruments leadership owns decisions for software investments when they have little domain experience. Declining market position and revenue of legacy technologies is alarming. Divesting of several previously acquired software companies tell the story. When customers seek information on Informatics, the original Cambridgesoft website is still running as the primary source, the acquisition was 6 years ago...