Abbott reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,396 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 9,396 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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2.0
Dec 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting projects to work on, good place for technical growth. You can work here for a while to grow your skills if you can survive the politics.

Cons

Periodic purges of entire departments or project teams, huge pressure to meet arbitrary deadlines so upper management can get their bonuses, it is far more important to be able to talk intelligently than to produce anything of value. Mid-management is flat-out cruel. Much work outsourced to India which was horrible. These guys did not share information, would intentionally mislead other engineers, and created a huge mess that was impossible to untangle. IT department is a joke. I don't know how many times I had to re-open a ticket that IT marked "solved" when it had not even been addressed. Completely useless but they care only about how many problems they "solve' and not actually fixing things. There was a period where managers were scored by how many of their direct reports made "voluntary" donations to the then-CEO's former company (United Way, I think).

1.0
Aug 30, 2014

Disfunctional!

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fortune 500 benefits and compensation

Cons

Since the Abbott acqusition the culture of AMO has totally changed to a mean and toxic working environment. The monthly chase for numbers makes for a frenzied and disfunctional atmosphere. Sr. Management is pharmaceutical in their mentality and not engaged in a positive manner with the sales team or customers. Employees work under the shadow of never ending layoffs. Employees are expected to do twice as much without the requisite resources.

1.0
Jul 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Same benefits as any other big company out there. 401K

Cons

- Work week = is never around the 40 hrs more around the 70hrs! - Very poor management - don't listen to what employees say for years but pay $$$ to a Consulting Firm to identify the same problems the employees presented years ago! - Does not promote within - Director of Quality has no management experience nor step up to the challenge - A few do the work of the many and if you complaint they tell you "mind your own business". - If you discover a mistake and you report it (as it should be), you get yourself a CAPA. - With +/- 50% less people they want better outcomes for metrics and upper management review. - Document Control area is like the Hunger Games! - It has been so bad that management (VP/Director/Manager/) combination has change more than 4 times in 4 yrs! - Every month is a run against time to meet numbers ....at all cost. - The single without family work 7 days a week (sending emails on Saturdays and Sundays) and expect the ones with family to do the same. - There is a mentality of "that is not my job" or "they don't pay me enough to do that" and management allows it. - People lie in Resume, get hired, can't do the job for 2 yrs (asking questions all the time, sick, left laptop at home, "working from home", vacation, etc) and all the mess she left behind is forwarded to someone else and the expectation is to fix ASAP 'cause the are old and to keep up with her load.

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