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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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No Upward Growth, Layoff Fears, and Underpaid Employees - Senior Project Manager Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
Jul 7, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work environment If you have a good manager and good team members, your day to day experience will be fine. They make an effort to have some on-site offerings such as yoga, 5k training, mentoring opportunities, etc.

Cons

Sorely lacking job security - Thermo has been secretly laying off massive amounts of people without informing anyone. We find out through the grapevine or when a key stakeholder is no longer responding. Lack of communication or clear vision from leadership - There is no clear roadmap set by leadership, management is flailing as a result, and the "open door" policies are not actually true. Far less than average pay, and any attempts to bring this up with management is met with reluctance. Managers don't feel they have enough support from leadership or HR to push a very fair pay raise through. This is not worth it when job security is faltering and we don't have a solid vision of where we're going or what our work means.

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Pros

Great company with advancement potential.

Cons

I wish there were more remote opportunities.

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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