Abbott reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,413 total reviews)
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Robert Ford

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Abbott has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,413 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Abbott employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Industrie manufacturière industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Oct 28, 2015

Abbott IT

Recommend
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Pros

Short term job until you are eliminated - gives you a chance to polish your resume, gain experience and look for a more rewarding job

Cons

Abbott has been shedding IT personnel for years and outsourcing their jobs starting with those with the most pension seniority. Expect pensions to be phased out. Management is totally focused on their bonuses which are multiples of their salaries. Projects never fail (see bonus above). Statistics are massaged to provide the desired results (see bonus above). The work environment is toxic as you never know from week to week whether or not you will have a job. Creativity is either plagiarized to killed Managers are abusive - they scream in your face that you're lucky to have a job and you had better fall in line Manager/Employee affairs are blatant - not that we care what you're doing just hold up your end of the job. The IT attitude towards women is mysogynistic, particularly, but not exclusively, from Indians and Muslims; women are definitely the 76% in Abbott IT.

2.0
Oct 8, 2015

Outsourcing IT Globally

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Pros

Not many since they lost Humira. The money is gone. They have no C-Level executives in IT because they don't value it.

Cons

Don't go here if you're an IT professional. Only a skeleton crew left after they outsourced technology to India.

2.0
Oct 2, 2015

Abbott IT Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people in IT that you work with are passionate about what they do. Compensation and benefits are above average. The overall company genuinely believes in its products and the people they benefit.

Cons

Ever since the company split with AbbVie, it seems that IT has been viewed as nothing but a a burden and a cost by executive leadership. Senior IT leadership seems to have been tasked with significantly reducing IT's cost profile apparently without being given the latitude to make strategic investments that will eventually reduce costs. As a result, it seems that they have been forced to reduce headcount by outsourcing which has appeared to lower business satisfaction with IT. That, in conjunction with poor change management and communications, significant leadership changes, and lack of a clear strategic direction, has resulted in extremely low morale among those of us who are left. It seems that people who can leave either have left or are trying to leave. Those who have outdated/obsolete skills, have been there so long that it wouldn't make financial sense to leave, or have no desire to re-enter the job market come to work each day with the fear that their job will be next to be eliminated.

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