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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Rewarding work, but leadership needs to keep up with the times - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

4.0
Aug 4, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

• Positive work environment with empathic direct and middle-management and great cross-functional teams • Annual bonuses with occasional discretionary bonuses throughout the year • Good 401k matching • Fulfilling projects that make a positive impact on customers and the world

Cons

• Corporate leadership resists hybrid and remote work arrangements for all positions even in geographic regions where hybrid/remote models are more successful, and even though everyone attends every meeting on a Zoom/Teams call anyway. This makes it difficult to attract and retain talent in a post-pandemic world. • Career development opportunities are difficult to navigate and are often impossible without relocation • Low total compensation and benefits compared to similar industries. • PTO is pooled between vacation and sick, and is "Use it or Lose It" - if you have remaining PTO hours at the end of the year, they just vanish. This is true even in states that require unused sick hours be rolled over even if they're pooled • They over-hired during the pandemic and are laying off talent en-masse throughout 2023 to satisfy shareholders. Layoffs are given without warning and is more often than not done to high performers who weren't even hired during the pandemic.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

You'll get hands-on experience with regulated lab environments, which is genuinely valuable early in your career. The CRO world gives you transferable knowledge of clinical trial operations that other companies will recognize. If you're self-motivated, there's room to build things on your own. I taught myself new tools and built reporting dashboards for my department because nobody else was going to do it. Tuition reimbursement existed when I started, which was a real benefit.

Cons

Compensation does not match the workload. You will be overworked and underpaid, and when you bring it up, nothing changes. I repeatedly asked leadership to let me take on work that aligned with my career goals and education, but I was always "too busy" with my regular responsibilities for that to happen. They'll happily benefit from your output but won't invest in your growth. The tuition reimbursement policy changed while I was mid-degree, which tells you everything about how they view employee development. Benefits are underwhelming for a company this size, and when I needed them most, they fell short. A workplace injury made it very clear where employees fall on their priority list, and it's well below the bottom line.

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