Danaher Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Danaher for more than 7 years

Pros – Management is committed for better or worse to DBS. Sing from the same page. Very good stock appreciation

Cons – Strong focus on quarterly results without much care for long term prospects

Advice to Senior Management – Benchmark long term performance against industry peers better

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Danaher full-time

Pros – Competitive salary, and decent 401k match and profit contribution after 1 year.

Cons – As other reviews have pointed out, Danaher is interested only in the bottom-line. Work/life balance is not a concern for them. No sick days, so have to use vacation, and it takes a very long time to get additional vacation days.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't discuss incentive comp plan bonuses around non-management employees that are not eligible.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Danaher full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Salary: That is how they get you. Remember that the grass is NOT always greener!
DBS: Danaher Business System. (Toyota Business System)
Employees that were working at the Danaher Business Unit prior to be acquired by Danaher.

Cons – Engineering's time was spent on fixing the existing products. No R&D. No Marketing. No dedicated outside sales force. Manufacturing runs the show. Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. The customer does not come first. Employees are assets to be used accordingly.

Advice to Senior Management – Any advice in contrast to Manufacturing or Accounting's ideals will be disregarded or considered to be provided by someone who's opinion is useless.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danaher full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Company culture strongly dependent of the location

Cons – Get an MBA if you want to look for senior position

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danaher full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Pressure drives performance
- DBS concept interesting intellectually at the beginning

Cons – - No training, no backoffice investment
- Dogmatic approach "processes will drive success"
- Redundant reporting without enough focus on core results
- Not enough meritocracy: some senior posts will just be assigned rotationally or based on relationships. If you are not well connected you may work 80 hours weeks til you retire and not get anything.

Advice to Senior Management – Make it a great place to work. Otherwise when the labor market improves you'll start losing key people

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danaher full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – continuous changes and process oriented

Cons – continual cost cutting measures with head count reductions happening for the past 3 years. All happening in December.

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to communicate more effectively.
Internal memo congratulated and thanked the teams for making Q2 a success. We made the numbers for Wall Street and received our Bonus. The next line said that we should expect cost cutting measures in Q3 and Q4 (i.e. head count reductions)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Danaher full-time for less than a year

Pros – Lot of autonomy, good salaries and bonuses

Cons – Lack of management, no communication

Advice to Senior Management – Don't penalize someone for being out sick. I missed two days in six months and was told that nobody ever misses work there. In fact, there are people who have been there for years who have never missed a single day of work. I was not hired permanently because of this, but they would not tell me that. They just kept overlooking me for open positions that I was well-qualified for.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danaher

Pros – Few redundant roles, ability to identify a problem and work on the solution, opportunity to move between companies if you are good at your job

Cons – Only one person to handle multiple jobs, so you are always waiting in line to get someone to do the work you need them to do. You will not really know when you have done something well based on management feedback, but will surely know when you have done something wrong.

Advice to Senior Management – Having great ideas with no people to implement them because associates are doing multiple jobs is frustrating and stagnates the business growth opportunities.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Danaher

Pros – A high performance company, quick moving, lots of smart people working there.....

Cons – Sometimes not much respect to people, high pressure

Advice to Senior Management – Considering more at employee benefit and education besides just giving incentive

Current Employee – been working at Danaher

Pros – Exposure to complex financial transactions and work across various disciplines, although this is more of a requirement than an opportunity.

Cons – Senior management is completely oblivious to the day to day functioning of the departments. There is very little exchange of ideas up the management chain. There is absolutely no work-life balance. Management has either no time or desire to help advance the careers of the staff. It's like prison without the meals.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend