Quality?

[Anonymous]

I am considering a sales position, but I've heard that Agilent stuff is pure feces from a quality perspective. Any thoughts? I mean, I don't care, don't get my wrong. I'd sell the pope a yalmuke. Just don't want to have that stand in the way of my big bonuses.

 

[Anonymous]

I am considering a sales position, but I've heard that Agilent stuff is pure feces from a quality perspective. Any thoughts? I mean, I don't care, don't get my wrong. I'd sell the pope a yalmuke. Just don't want to have that stand in the way of my big bonuses.

Are you kidding me? Agilent has the best equipment in the industry!

 

[Anonymous]

Yes. Agilent equipment is quality. But the company sucks as far as their sales rep coverage. There are areas of the country that barely ever see a local rep. They need to beef up the force.

 

[Anonymous]

Agilent is probably a solid #2 in quality, Waters being the class leader. Shimadzu is cheap junk, PerkinElmer is little better, Varian somewhere in the middle. Dionex is supposed to be decent, but I don't have a frame of reference. Those are the ones I have a knowledge of. I'm sure there's probably others out there, but those are the big ones.

 

[kyla watson]

How are these companies today? Who's better?

 

[anonymous]

From what I've heard, Agilent probably has the best software and the most durable and user-friendly instruments. Waters and Shimadzu are cheap so I guess they got that going for them, but I've seen more broken Waters and Shimadzu machines than working ones. Sciex/Danaher has very sensitive instruments, but crap software and they tend to come in on the expensive side. Thermo has the edge in terms of hardware, but they are much more expensive than the rest of their competitors, and I haven't heard great things as far as software goes. There's also Bruker now, and they have some unique instrument capabilities, but they are based in Germany and don't have the best support stateside.