Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"You need backup plans if you are working at there."

What do you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"It's stable. You have a job for as long as you want it. They have too much bureaucracy to be able fire anyone. That's mostly a bad thing, really. Wait, I was supposed to say what I like... hrm. Well, we do make instruments which are used to make the world cleaner and safer. That does make you feel good."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a decent enough job. But it's just a job. If you care too much, you're only going to hurt yourself."

What don't you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"I spend more time in meetings and dealing with red tape than actually producing anything. There is no actual direction to the products we make. The development teams just build what they think needs to be built and the sales team tries to sell it and the executives try to either take credit or pass the buck depending on how successful we are. There is no overarching vision or strategy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The CEO runs the executives in such a way that everyone is more concerned with plausible deniability, passing the buck, and generally avoiding taking responsibility then they are with making the tough choices and taking chances so the company can really succeed. I would do the opposite of what he's doing."

"Great company but difficult to work at."

"Work for the company for almost a year."

"Quickly became aware customers were negected w/ level of service. Co's top heavy"

What do you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"It started out as a totally great company to work for ...Great boss, great co-workers and treated like a CEO. As time went on after the initial training, I began to see that training was going to be sketchy. As soon as they let the main trainer go 1 year before his retirement and then my awesome supervisor who seemed to really care about his team and his job, I knew something was not quite kosher there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Cover Your Butt and have a back up plan. Be ready for learning a lot on your own and not getting the direction and feedback you should expect from a very large corporation."

What don't you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"No real training program in place, overloaded field force, competition kept stealing our best guys. The company has a cumbersome top down trickle effect and seems indifferent towards the lower levels of employee. They just merge and eliminate jobs, then seek to hire for the very same positions right after instead of utilizing existing manpower. They really lack communication."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't operate so indifferently to the employees by just mandating executive privilege. Get involved more, communicate more and rethink your philosophy. Establish better relationships with employees in all areas and seek to retain people not use and discard good people."

"Old boys club"

What do you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"Technical challenges quaiet environment without too much competition, combination between engineering and science."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a parking lot with low appetite for change."

What don't you like about working at Thermo Fisher Scientific?

"No opportunity for growth, a lot of internal politics, not many new ideas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get feedback from people who understand the technology, create a more dynamic environment."

"It is okay place to work but my dept needs help."

"Thermo Fisher Scientific has gobbled up too many companies, making it a very large, unwieldy company. A lack of set procedures and a revolving door for middle management made this company difficult to work for."

"Very average, boring people. Thermo is often a life sentence."

"Pros: job security is pretty good at Thermo. The insurance is about the same as other places. Cons: when hired told travel was less than 50% but in reality it's well above 75%. The training is good, however when you are in the field it could be months before you see the equipment again. Talking to different people from different companies doing the same job it seems we are on the lower side of the pay scale for the field."

"My job is very intresting to me and I really like it. But location of our office in Russia very uncomfortable and I did'n have nesessary resources to do my job best, I mean website and software."

"Worst compensation, doing the job of more than four persons and no professional growth"