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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Avoid unless you have no other options - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Jun 28, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible with work-hours. 25 days of PTO Depending which function and department you end up in things might be ok for you.

Cons

Not enough space for all employees, both offices and canteen are not able to accommodate the amount of people on site. Lack of any career development or progression, what you start with will be what you will probably be doing for the rest of your time here. Pay is low and pay increases are not substantial enough to compensate senior staff for years of work in the company especially if they started on lower wages. Heavy favoritism within the management and reliance on US management for anything, resulting in the site being substantially worse than other businesses around it. Cost cutting and penny pinching on everything. Spending 1-2k on something that would benefit multiple employees well-being is asking to much from a multi billion company. Spending even 30-60 euro on tools that would improve work efficiency substantially is also asking for a lot here, but the amount of waste generate by incompetent staff resulting in thousands lost is ok. There is no culture in the company since management is focused on hiring people with only specific skills without considering how they will work with rest of team resulting in massive divide within different departments and tribal like behavior within the office.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

The work culture is positive

Cons

There are usually so many studies and few people to work on them

1.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

If you're stuck in the Greenville area for some unfortunate reason, it's a job.

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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