Thermo Fisher Scientific Reviews

Pros

good benefits, some smart and driven employees, some very good managers who legitimately care about their employees

Cons

very little work/life balance...you pretty much have to just set your mind that you will not let work take over your life.

some senior management walk around with their nose held high, as if they were born and walked into a Sr VP position...wrong. Not how it works. You advanced and were allowed to move up the ranks - remember that and allow others to do the same.

Employees feel disposable....the company has a vision to double workforce and revenue by the end of the decade, but are constantly cutting employees.

company wants to be one of the worlds most respected companies, but this is merely a talking point...they will never take the actions to get there.

they want to talk about how they have top talent, but will do nothing to retain it. if you want the top talent, you have to give them an incentive to stick around. they don't understand this very simple concept.

Advice to Senior Management

appreciate your employees more

take the steps to actually become a well-respected company

don't cut employees when your CEO sits around with his private plane and $40 million paycheck...don't want to hear it.

Pros

Thermo Fisher was very family friendly.

Cons

no rewards for hard work

Advice to Senior Management

Management seemed very disjointed, there doesn't seem to be a functional global business plan

Pros

*good work life balance
*good people

Cons

*lack of communication from senior management
*shutting downing/consolidating factories

Advice to Senior Management

Stop laying off people and pay the little extra it takes to retain top talent

Pros

Very good Benefits. For a new employee the total benefit package is very good.

Cons

Hard work is not recognized.
It is more of who you know and not what you have proven you can do.
Very top heavy – a lot of chiefs telling the Indians what needs to be done.

Advice to Senior Management

Start looking internal for good people. Once the economy starts to improve the good employees that have never been recognized will start to leave.

Pros

401k plan! Networking opportunities, associates

Cons

Endless metrics designed to provide glowing reports upwards while covering severe problems at lower levels. Horrible operations software, constant change of direction, ineffective implementation of directives.

Advice to Senior Management

Open channels of communication to unit managers and get a sense of the real issues impacting business units, employees and most importantly the customer.

Pros

Thermo Fisher does a good job of promoting from within, provide opportunites to grow, develop a career path, good organizational structure, strategic global growth focus based on customers and employees.

Cons

Need to focus on on organic growth for the organization. Success of the emplyess is determined by their ability to adapt.

Advice to Senior Management

Thermo Fisher is a great grwoing company with a clear vision of the future and the challenges ahead in such a dynamic global market place.

Pros

Large company, large company benefits

Cons

lots of red tape. you spend more time checking off corporate boxes and trainings than doing actual work.

Advice to Senior Management

loosen up

Pros

benefit package and padding a resume early in a career

Cons

zero career path. corporate greed to the max for the chosen few

Advice to Senior Management

purge the VI's and above who do not perform or treat everyone else the same.

Pros

Has several locations across the country.

Cons

No work-life balance
Management treats employees disrespectfully, especially minorities and women
Company culture not conducive to high morale
Compensation not reasonable for services provided

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees.

Pros

Great brands, great connections to customers. Corporate office seem to be doing the right things. Products have huge potential for improvements.

Cons

Consumable Divisions are short sighted, lack experienced leadership and are not resourced for growth. Day to day factory issues take up marketing time. No focus on long term strategies or road maps. Global marking managers have to place orders or workarounds to avoid daily slips. There is no division between sustaining and development. Middle management is reluctant to change, most have never worked outside of their roles and have no other experiences from other companies. Broken processes on top of a miss understanding of branding, product development and research. You don't want to stay long because the lack of change will kill your career.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring us out of the 1970s and separate the marketing and business end from the day to day production of the factories. Consolidate all research groups, marketing and development into one business that is not housed near any factories.