Danaher Reviews

I worked at Danaher full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The caliber of people you work with and the DBS Danaher Business System training you receive is incredible, very decentralized and entrepreneurial. Danaher is very good at allowing cross business career opportunities for high achievers.

Cons – The company is demanding from a time standpoint some positions would be tough on a young professional beginning a family.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to focus on what has made Danaher successful

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Danaher full-time

Pros – Meritocracy, plenty of opportunity, learn a lot about how to run a business well

Cons – Never good enough, not as much autonomy as preached, too many metrics, people are disillusioned, very polarized workforce

Advice to Senior Management – Celebrate sucesses

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Danaher full-time for more than a year

Pros – Metric driven organization with high levels of accountablitly. Heavy focus on Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement. Upper management provides tools necessary to achieve goals.

Cons – Metrics are everything at Danaher. They strive to make sure everyone knows the rules of the game and what both winning and losing looks like. However, if you are in a division that is suffering financially the game is impossible to win.

Advice to Senior Management – Become more involved with projects throughout the month and not just for montly reviews.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Danaher full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Will gain great experience and knowledge, especially when involved heavily with DBS (Danaher Business Systems)
- Can drive amazing short term results

Cons – - Shark Tank!
- Nothing matters other than metrics, cost savings, and results for the sake of upper management and shareholders; leads to massive shortcutting and neglecting of core values and top two publicized metrics (Safety, Quality)
- DBS can be utilized for better purposes; company talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk
- Impossible to succeed at OpCos (subsidiaries) that have been leaned out (anorexic state) and suffering from lack of reinvestment while cost metrics become more rigid; Danaher succeeds while subsidiaries eventually fail

Advice to Senior Management – - Walk the walk and reinvest in the business. Lean should be used to make the business more efficient, thereby making room to bring in more business and opportunities, not cut heads. Danaher seems stuck in the 80's/90's.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Danaher full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great focus on continuous improvement in a collegial, non-blaming environment. Great opportunities for career growth across the many companies Danaher owns. Wide variety of science, technology and environmental companies under the Danaher umbrella. Senior management is excellent. Lots of highly intelligent people in the company.

Cons – Sometimes the decentralized nature of the company means several operating companies are duplicating efforts. Like most publicly-traded companies there is an intense focus on meeting Wall Street's numbers each quarter.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue the focus on keeping the unique culture that makes Danaher great.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Danaher for more than 7 years

Pros – Management is committed for better or worse to DBS. Sing from the same page. Very good stock appreciation

Cons – Strong focus on quarterly results without much care for long term prospects

Advice to Senior Management – Benchmark long term performance against industry peers better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Danaher full-time

Pros – Competitive salary, and decent 401k match and profit contribution after 1 year.

Cons – As other reviews have pointed out, Danaher is interested only in the bottom-line. Work/life balance is not a concern for them. No sick days, so have to use vacation, and it takes a very long time to get additional vacation days.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't discuss incentive comp plan bonuses around non-management employees that are not eligible.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Danaher full-time for more than a year

Pros – The people and bosses are great to work with

Cons – Some times you will have to work long houses

Advice to Senior Management – They are great and no advice is needed

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Danaher full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Salary: That is how they get you. Remember that the grass is NOT always greener!
DBS: Danaher Business System. (Toyota Business System)
Employees that were working at the Danaher Business Unit prior to be acquired by Danaher.

Cons – Engineering's time was spent on fixing the existing products. No R&D. No Marketing. No dedicated outside sales force. Manufacturing runs the show. Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. The customer does not come first. Employees are assets to be used accordingly.

Advice to Senior Management – Any advice in contrast to Manufacturing or Accounting's ideals will be disregarded or considered to be provided by someone who's opinion is useless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Danaher full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Strong lean tools, excellent place to learn

Cons – Negative culture, blaming environment. Lost what made it special

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company