Not the best choice for employment - Anonymous employee PerkinElmer Employee Review

2.0
Mar 31, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people that do the actual work are great. Take the job if you need it - but keep looking for better.

Cons

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 Technology platforms are out of date.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..

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PerkinElmer Response
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We appreciate your candid feedback and would be happy to have somebody reach out to you to discuss your concerns. Please feel free to email : peoplematters@perkinelmer.com.

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