Abbott reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,391 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 9,391 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
Aug 17, 2016
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Pros

the only reason I have managed to stay 2 years at Abbot vascular in Santa Clara, CA is my coworkers.

Cons

Extremely top heavy. in RA organization of 40+, there are 9 directors!!! 3 left last year and only one was replaced. So yes there were 12 at one point. Last year we had 15 employees leave due to work stress. Management did not blink an eye. Handful contractors were hired and left due to poor treatment. They rather start out with new contractor vs hiring the existing ones. Maybe 4-5 permanent people were hired to fill those positions. We are told to be lean! the worker bees are expected to work 12-14 hour days because we're a global company. And if you want a promotion in 2-3 years you need to put in overtime and you might just get it. Yet compensation is at least 10-15% less than other companies. There is also a lot of outsourcing. IT is mostly gone, you deal with people in India who are not trained properly to do their job. Clinical has been outsourced to a CRO. There is one person left in doc control! Business slows because of broken systems and lack of proper resources.

1.0
Mar 25, 2012
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Pros

Competative salary and good benefits

Cons

There is a serious issue at the Senior management level that continue to result in the high employee turnover rate. Senior management has no experience in managing people, their staff or projects. They display very poor communication, no recognition for employee achievements or hard work and provide no support for their staff. Senior management here is known to have bad intentions, do not support their staff, and uses primative tactics that continue to demotivate, discourage and disrespect their employees which result in employees constantly looking for employment elsewhere and high turn over rate. They have high demands but have no clue to what is needed to sucessfully execute or complete priority projects. They are only out for themselves and are too busy playing the political game and will not hesitate to blame others when issues arises in efforts to deflect blame from themselves. They will make empty promises upon hire to reel you in the company such as balance of work and family life and flexible work hours however once you are there, everything changes. They openly display favortism, do not treat all their employees fairly, are not at all flexible with all of their staff and some are expected to work unreasonable work hours away from their family while others are not. Even then, you will not receive any appreciation or acknowledgement for your dilegence and commitment. The all around bad management here (at manager level & above) results in unhappy, highly stressed, frustrated, disgruntal employees which result in a lack of team efforts and many environmental issues. If you are thinking of joining their Quality Assurance department, please do your research and think twice. There are many good companies out there, unfortunately this is not one of them.

2.0
Jul 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, casual dress code, food truck days, nice campus outside

Cons

Trade-off of excellent benefits versus Old Boy network 1950s management

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