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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Poor work culture - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Bonus is 100% or more

Cons

- employees are stretched beyond office hours for trivial issues such as meetings, plannings, open-source projects(excluding 8 hours of deliverables/day) - resources shared across multiple projects without sync across managers. No priority set for deliverables - An immediate joinee will be expected to give 30, 60, 90 day presentations where new design changes need to be proposed for product; these presentations will be equivalent to interviews where management will mock your efforts stating you need to scale -any new technology or technically interesting problem must be taken up on weekends and beyond office hours - for a new joinee, a 'major secret project' will be assigned which cannot be spoken of and must be done beyond office hours. In case you deny, they will keep requesting you to take it up in 1-to-1 meetings with manager - toxic work culture as due to above points, everyone is stretched all the time. For a new joinee, no time to understand the product, your buddy will also not have time to help you out as he/she is stretched as well - lengthy meetings extended for trivial issues. 15-30 mins Scrum goes on from 1-1.5 hours. Other than this, 4-5 hours of meetings every day for developers other than their 8 hours of dev work. You can expect a a 10.30 PM call in the morning followed by a 6 am call in the morning - aggresive management where they may insult/scold you in monthly meetups when your demo your leanings - No process for anything. Right from onboarding, to setup, to access to offboarding, everything was a mess. eg : Getting access to Jira, Confluence took a month. **poor work life balance, toxic culture. One may be mentally impacted to work normal hours after being a part of this organization

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Pros

-I enjoyed the work and my coworkers were nice. -The pay was more than decent for my field. -Good benefits and opportunities to learn.

Cons

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2.0
26 May 2026
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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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