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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Thermo Fisher Scientific reviews

3.5

62% would recommend to a friend

(12,636 total reviews)
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Marc N. Casper

69% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Thermo Fisher Scientific has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 12,636 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Thermo Fisher Scientific employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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13K reviews
2.0
Sep 15, 2009

Thermo is OK if you are a scientist.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It can be a great place if you are a scientist or interested in the technology or specifics of the Life Sciences industry. Less so if you are not.

Cons

Starting salaries are competitive, but annual raises are 2% across the board, so over time, your pay does not even come close to keeping pace with inflation. Everything is based on quarterly results, with little interest in long-term vision.

1.0
Sep 14, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent Benefits ... if you get to use them.

Cons

- the business is owned and managed by people who no longer know how to get the job done. "The Job" should be making a great product, selling, serving the customer etc. -"the Job" has become survival of management by throwing the worker under the bus to improve the bottom line; therefore management is killing off the business. That starts with frontline supervisors and goes all the way up to caring only about the artificial stock value in the Boardroom. - knowledge and skill is not appreciated, rewarded, nor is it acknowledged. -the culture is suck up nepotism, relational nepotism, and short sighted. -loyalty and productivity are not appreciated. - you will not find integrity in management - the latest wrinkle is to try and turn people into robots, shoving them into phone booth sized workspaces and counting the pieces of paper "allowed" to them in doing their job. To say its "Mickey Mouse" is an insult to Disney; it's just plain stupidity. No one in current management has the slightest idea how to motivate and inspire people to do great things but they are masters at demotivating and grinding people under, sucking out their life and then throwing them out with the trash.

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