PerkinElmer Reviews in Shelton, CT

Former Employee – worked at PerkinElmer

Pros – Great People, Strong Brand. They treat their employees with respect and allow you to share your input. Product development has quality built into it. Everyone seems happy to be at work, however.

Cons – Flex-time is non existent. alot of old-timers with no new visions. They are in desperate need of some fresh young blood to get the place pumping out great new innovative products. People are clock watchers, waiting to get out of work as soon as possible.

Advice to Senior Management – Take more risks, be a little bit more innovative. "Me too" mentality is going to make you some money, but it will not make you BIG money. Be the first at something, PerkinElmer has done this in the past, I'm sure it can be done again

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at PerkinElmer full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – PerkinElmer got to keep the name. But the technology went with Sciex. The technology is super old and cannot compete. Sorry, putting old technology in a new box doesn't cut it.

Cons – PE keeps playing games to boost its numbers like selling its site in Turku and renting it back to show a "profit".

Advice to Senior Management – Look to the future. Not to the current products of your competitors.

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

Current Employee – been working at PerkinElmer full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are some good non-manager people in this organization.

Cons – Allow me to paint a picture.

 Imagine a Gong Show hybrid LOTR scenario in which each and every month the President holds a meeting in which all managers have to present updates on the status of their departments and products (called MOR). This is against a back drop of continuous rounds of layoffs, severe understaffing and no employee development, Now these managers entire existence revolves around making sure the MOR goes well and will create all sorts of fiction, misdirection, songs and dances so that the gong does not go off on them while under the Eye of Sauron. If you do not paint a rosy picture during the MOR.....Gong! Employees just disappear around here at an astonishing rate....Now you see them now you don't!

Underscoring this is the fact that the company is so internally screwed up. Outdated SAP system, that has been so jerry rigged over the years that today the only thing keeping it from collapsing is rubber bands and bubble gum.

Internal processes are not mapped SOPs do not exist.

Job descriptions do not exist.

Organizational Chart does not exist.

Additionally:

Senior Management as other people have noted is a good 'ol boys club employees input not welcome. In fact employees are not valued at all.

Senior Management managing for the next quarter to boost the stock as much as they can. No long term goals no appreciation for science or creating good products.

Low salarys. No opportunities for advancement.

A completely demoralized work force who's main career goals (besides leaving for a better company) are to avoid the next round of layoffs. Like the board game Survivor.

I apologize that my picture is so ugly and negative.

All of us working here wish someone would have painted us this picture so that we could of avoided working for Perkinelmer.

Advice to Senior Management – What's the point?

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

Former Employee – worked at PerkinElmer

Pros – It used to have a proud history of making great products

Cons – Not anymore. Management is a huge problem. Everyone is a "leader". The environment is super political with all its associated back biting and dirty tricks.
Management is interested only in making sure they are looked at favorably by their managers. They are not interested in building good product, like the PE of old.
They do not listen nor care about their people. In one meeting, where they explained a lay off it was said that "we have good news and bad news: the bad news is that we had to lay four people off but the good news is that we were able to hire six people in Singapore". People are sandbagged, blamed for problems that are caused by management's incompetence.

Advice to Senior Management – Leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend