Pros
In my career of over 25+ the people at PerkinElmer have been the kindest nicest humans I have met. and by far the smartest, most science driven professionals I've ever worked with. Management was never perfect but was tolerable. During my time at PE, I always manage to have a good work life balance.
Cons
Ever since the split of the organization and PerkinElmer stayed with New Mountain Capital, things change for the worst. I expected things to change but not this drastically. From dishonesty on the true increase of the cost of benefits to forcing management to grant merit increases NOT based on skill but to meet an arbitrary pyramid of performance. Essentially, the substantial cuts to 401K and HSA contributions, massive cost increase to medical benefits, 0-1.5% pay raises the last two years have contributed to a mass exodus of talented people because the take home pay has decreased. On paper, you get an meager increase but your take home has gone down two years in a row.
