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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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After 20 years, can i plead insanity? - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
25 Feb 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits package are decent. Pay rate is better than some of the companies out there in the community. Other employees of senior years are great to work with.

Cons

How can i put this nicely!...Oh wait this is Thermofisher, there is nothing nice. They will con you, use you, degrade you, humiliate you, pretend they care about you, lie directly to your face, and play the blame game. If you ask a simple question, you get a 20 minute speech that still doesnt answer your question. Common sense and intelligent decisions tend to take a back door to micromanaging and worrying about how many times an employee has to use the bathroom. Morale is poor and management pretends that they care but all they do is passify the employees during high stress situations.

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Cons

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2.0
6 Jul 2026
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Pros

Since the company is big, it's a great opportunity for networking, learning new skills, and earning certificates after completing hazard safety training that you can use in the future as well (especially if you're working with Unity Lab Services). Coworkers are usually nice and will always lend a hand if you need it. If you're lucky, you might be placed at a one-person site where the site supervisor is chill and understanding, lets you work at your own pace, and helps you learn new things by giving you "side quests."

Cons

No real career growth. The workload can be hard to keep up with at times, and the company strictly enforces an 8-hour workday with no overtime, even when needed. Day-to-day operations feel heavily micromanaged by upper management through strict policies. HR introduces new policies almost monthly, often adding tasks that feel unnecessary. They frame this as becoming "more data-driven," but in practice, it hasn't led to much noticeable improvement.

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