Thermo Fisher Scientific Reviews

Pros

Excellent work/life balance. The local employees are absolutely wonderful to work with. Excellent 401k plan and decent health benefits. Salary is about average for the industry.

Cons

Upper management rearranged almost monthly, along with company objectives. Serious problem with over management of projects. "Managers managing managers" with an unfortunate few underlings actually doing all the work. Corporate culture is antiquated and not in line with a modern workplace. "Big Red" as a whole, is a holding company. There is no innovation from the inside, they simply purchase innovative companies, pillage their patents and lay off the employees after a knowledge drain. Since my small company was acquired a few years ago, I have watched the "small company" tight-knit atmosphere fade and be replaced by corporate boredom, red tape, and a complete lack of job security. Revolving door of talent leaving. Folks remaining are simply waiting for the "other shoe to drop."

Advice to Senior Management

When acquiring small, innovative companies, realize that it is the talent, not the patents, that are important. Companies should be left a "direct bolt on" to the existing corporate structure, and allowed to live on and continue doing what they do best. Allowing talented scientists and engineers to walk out the door while maintaining an ultra conservative status quot will ultimately result in this company's downfall.

Pros

Great minds to work with in R/D. A chance to work on new projects every day. Friendly atmosphere with colleagues.

Cons

Leadership is poor. Lack of vision. High level positions given and held to incompetent individuals. pay is at the lowere end of industry averages.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from within. Lead by example. Listen to your engineers. Accountability at all levels. Don't rely on MBA's outside our industry!

Pros

Good benefits package. Paycheck. 6% 401k pay matching.

Cons

Poor technology provided to employees (considering this is a SCIENCE company).
Horrible management who make poor decisions without feedback from the people who will be affected.
Profits are all that matter - this is truly a quantity over quality environment.
Not attracting or holding onto the best and brightest due to poor work/life balance, lack of positive feedback, lack of incentives, lack of perks, poor decision-making, poor compensation, and any other attempts to make the workplace more enjoyable.

Advice to Senior Management

Take responsibility for your decisions, and treat your employees with respect. Start promoting smart people, not people you like best.

Pros

Thermo is dedicated to my development

Cons

They have difficulty differentiating leaders from stragglers

Advice to Senior Management

keep good talent and worry less about the poor performers' reactions to those actions

Pros

The technology is pretty advanced

Cons

The management does not care about the employee.
Manager is not capable to respect the staff
Benefits and salary are not good compared to competitiors
Constantly waste time PPI, 5S

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your staff well with respect.

Pros

Growing company, sucessful, decent benefit packages, choices in benefit packages, 401K, involved in PPI, 5S, Kaizan, Lean...Informed of important changed pretty quickly.

Cons

Since Thermo Fisher Scientific is made up of so many different companies, it makes it pretty diffcult for everyone to be on the same page company wide. It makes it very confusing for many, many people.
Benefits increase every year so if there is a wage increase, the benefit increase pretty much takes care of that.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice if when asked for honest opinions on management practices if something was done with that knowledge.

Pros

independent work place, flexible hours, some travel involved, employees treated great!

Cons

cubicle workspace, repetitive day to day work

Advice to Senior Management

I was not there long enough to give advice to leadership

Pros

It is a big company with a decent benefits package. Corp. management has some great sounding goals for growth. If you have a scientific background they are into it.

Cons

Low pay, none of that growth trickles down. CCG division local management is not fun to work for, micromanaged unless you are one of the chosen. CSR's are not empowered to solve customer issues, hard to find what division does what.

Pros

Very attractive benefit package
pad your resume
learn something here and move on

Cons

compensation is low for commitment required.
very top heavy management structure, which is compensated very generously for meager results.
limited options for those not in Boston or Pittsburgh.

Advice to Senior Management

share the wealth with all employees and get rid of some of the underperforming or incompetent managers. this should be performance based management, not who you buddy up to.

Pros

benifits timeoff some hard working people

Cons

favoritism and politics are ridiculous. management doesn't care who does the work as long as it's done.

Advice to Senior Management

treat everyone equally stop with intimidating the workforce.