Danaher reviews

3.5

54% would recommend to a friend

(830 total reviews)
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Rainer M. Blair

61% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Danaher has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 830 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Danaher employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

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830 reviews
1.0
May 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have met some good people here who I know I will have lasting friendships with. I have had the opportunity to acquire experience in a number of different aspects of my field and, in doing so, have gained very valuable insight to the kind of company and department in which I want to grow old and eventually retire from.....

Cons

....and Danaher ain't it. I have not even reached the two year mark of employment with this place and am already looking for a new job. My department is so stretched to the bare bones minimum and we are so overwhelmed with the volume of our workload, that we are having trouble focusing on what our priorities are and it is often the case where tasks and deadlines fall off our plates because our plates are way too full. In spite of this, there are no plans to add headcount. The leadership within our department is nonexistant. Yes, there is a manager, directors and a VP....yet no leadership and no one with a business plan to address the needs of the department.

2.0
Jul 18, 2018

HR

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global Company, opportunities to move around, continuous process improvement (at the operating companies), excellent pay

Cons

No work/life balance, toxic leadership is a common thing, process overload, innovation is not a thing (within corporate anyways), hierarchical culture

2.0
Jan 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Winners : Great for the out going CEO Larry K. Not only did he get his 30 million or so average over the 4 years he was here he also got a 109 million dollar buy out. Good job Larry Winners: Great for the outgoing former Pall execs. They also got multi-million dollar buy outs. Winners: Great for the former Pall Corp Shareholders they got 2 to 4 times what they paid for their stock when the stock buy out was around 127 dollars a share. Winners: Great for the few employees not laid off they get to keep their jobs and all the new benefits that Danaher employees all get.

Cons

Losers: The employees at other facilities at Pall as the massive layoffs began. Losers: Most of the employees at the former Global headquarters at Port Washington , NY Most are or already have been laid off. Losers: The talented lab personnel that all lost their jobs at PW as the jobs and the lab talent did not move to other facilities. The lab talent was managed out the front door to the unemployment line. Losers: The customers who now will have to wait for newly hired trainee lab personnel from other facilities to come up to speed for the testing protocols they are now just learning (usually a 6 month process at best) and These newly trained personnel are dealing with a heavy back log of tests to perform as they are replacing many labs and the work load those labs performed. Losers: LI as when the final person exits the PW facility the area will have lost in total hundreds of jobs, And the money these people will have spent on LI as well as the tax base Pall corp has brought to LI for over 70 years. Losers: Any LI person who might have landed a job at Pall if the Acquisition had not gone through.

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