Thermo Fisher Scientific reviews

Thermo was formed as a series of acquisitions, many of which have not ever bee integrated. There is a lot of isolation between divisions so it can be hard to move around the company or even get information about our own products. If you are ambitious in your career, you will want to make it happen for yourself. Thermo will not do the work for you. But then, if you are content to wait while someone else helps you, you probably won't get too far in your career anyway.

No real mission or science. You did not pass P-chem or went to good Business schools to work here. Its 90% about low cost manufacturing of consumables with low margin and 10% Science. If you like to work for Kmart/office-max you love it here. Its all about pedeling 1000's of SKUs. Not in same level at all with pharma and Bio-pharma. High turnover, some depts as high as 20%. HR is even week, high turnover even in HR. Comp. can not find focus, continuously reorg. Re-Org fatigue is common. Closing sites and moving product lines often. Due to lack of vision and mature leadership, they only focus on cost cutting and M&A, which both are easy and most companies can do on drop of the hat. They fail in real leadership which is Inovation, organic growth, trend setter, game changer, best place to work, and emloyee empowerment. You have to go to Genentech/Amgen to see that. They have problem with letting go incompetent leaders and staff. Therefore the good ones take off sooner or later.