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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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LSG finance is not a happy place. - Senior Financial Analyst Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
15 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Base Salary and bonus are pretty good. Med benefits are standard. 15 Days of PTO which technically includes your sick time, but “working from home” when sick does happen. ESPP exists, but discount is smaller than usual. Really nothing overly special other than that it is a large stable company.

Cons

Hard to progress with the amount of favoritism taking place. Even then, they seem more likely to hire from outside than promote from within. Deadlines are often unrealistic. All of their financial systems and data are a disaster. They acquire or restructure their businesses so frequently that it often makes any financial analysis so confusing as to be nearly worthless. Unless you are a director (with an office), you will have zero personal space. You will be seated in a huge open floor, in blocks of six seats, three per side. You will feel like your elbows are basically touching the people next to you, and you can see the people across from you... and that’s just within your block. It didn’t feel like finance was very appreciated there, even within finance, and there was just a general undercurrent of insincerity surrounding everything, especially performance reviews. If you are happy with you current employer, and your happiness is more valuable to you than whatever pay bump you might get here, then I’d recommend staying put.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
6 Jul 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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