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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Don't Look For Honor, Integrity or Competence within the Management of this company. - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Sep 14, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

Great company with a very promising future. Work with very talented invdividuals.

Cons

If you are not in R&D, sometimes it feels like you are behind compared to industry standards.

2.0
Jul 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Since the company is big, it's a great opportunity for networking, learning new skills, and earning certificates after completing hazard safety training that you can use in the future as well (especially if you're working with Unity Lab Services). Coworkers are usually nice and will always lend a hand if you need it. If you're lucky, you might be placed at a one-person site where the site supervisor is chill and understanding, lets you work at your own pace, and helps you learn new things by giving you "side quests."

Cons

No real career growth. The workload can be hard to keep up with at times, and the company strictly enforces an 8-hour workday with no overtime, even when needed. Day-to-day operations feel heavily micromanaged by upper management through strict policies. HR introduces new policies almost monthly, often adding tasks that feel unnecessary. They frame this as becoming "more data-driven," but in practice, it hasn't led to much noticeable improvement.

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