Great team, but salary is low - Scientist Smithers Group Employee Review

4.0
Apr 20, 2020
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Pros

Great and well balanced team with various knowledge backgrounds and experiences. People are really passionate about their profession and strive for excellence at what they do.

Cons

Great responsability with project leading but no incentives or salary increase. A lot of overtime to get the job done and finish on time. Scientists do project leading, managing the team, training of people, writing sales proposals for clients but the BDM get the credit and percentage and no payment for the actual people that did all work.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

There were a few nice coworkers that genuinely wanted to make things better, but that can’t outweigh the cons.

Cons

Benefits are lacking, especially not a competitive PTO policy. Overall the culture is very much as though everyone is on pins and needles just looking out for their own self-interest, so there’s very little genuine team support. It’s a privately owned company and management makes no pretense about their utter lack of transparency. One minute they’re talking about how strong the pipeline is and the next they’re laying off >10% of the division. Not to mention that they’re not up front in the hiring process about requirements to be on-call after hours.

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