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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9K reviews
1.0
Feb 1, 2014

One of the worst companies I've ever worked for.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Profit-sharing and health benefits are worthy additions coming from the acquistion by Abbott Laboratories.

Cons

Favoritism and horrendous office politics are rampant and have been for many years. Opportunities for advancement are slim to none. HR keeps repeating the mantra "We advance from within before hiring from the outside" - not true. Research is virtually non-existent. Risk-adverse environment. Rather than "grow your own"...management buys people/companies with the knowledge/technology they want and lay off/fire loyal employees. People are ignored (unless you are one of the "chosen favorites") when improvements are suggested. I've seen co-workers have their integrity questioned (with full participation of HR and middle management) and, when no wrongdoing was found...no apologies were given to the employees. Insults are common. Non-professional behavior is common. Age discrimination is present. Very few get to go to trade shows. Very few get to go to outside training. Very few get to attend clinicals or interact with customers (either patients or doctors). Travel budgets have dried up. On my only clinical trip - one doctor lamented how poor of a showing AMO had with respect to its competitors. Another customer nearly threw us out because of the horrendous experience they had with the field service and support group. Capital equipment budgets have also dried up. Things are so bad that management didn't even release the results of an internal survey that was taken about a year ago. By the way - James Mazzo has not been the CEO of this company for almost 2 years - he retired and Murthy Simhambhatla is the new CEO (do a search).

2.0
Jun 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice clean surrounding and beautiful environment. Good pension and benefits.

Cons

Nasty toxic culture. Too many friends and relatives at high position posts hence wrong people being promoted, hence Very poor callous management. Extremely unethical hence there are always problems with product quality....a few nasty character infest the whole establishment. Most of the people only there for the money, they don't care about the company or people's life. If you do care, you are ostracised or the people in charge will try and cause you problem as obviously their main objective is to protect their jobs and their friends and family working in the company. Nepotism Rules.There is a strong rascists culture in some people who are in charge. Not necessary Abbotts ethos but certain members in position of power most certainly are.

2.0
Dec 20, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits- pay, healthcare and overall benefits are great. Good career development depending on your team and if you are willing to seek it out.

Cons

Abbott has a rough work culture. People here know how to work hard, but a lot of times it feels like we never got rewarded for our work. Generally, people are not friendly here and everybody has this kind of "wow things are so chaotic- haha" attitude here. Most people do not like their jobs and it shows because they are not willing to help others and often times choose to make processes more complicated than they need to be because they have no idea how other business functions operate. I worked in supply chain and I felt that management constantly was making business decisions that were not practical and did more harm then good. At one of the sites I worked at, management told us we would be switching ERP systems and the software implementation went incredibly poorly. It seemed that the decision was not thoroughly thought out and we had to do a site wide production stop because the system no longer fit our processes. Overall- I would not recommend working here unless you are passionate about healthcare. The needs of the business change constantly and it's not worth the stress if you aren't particularly passionate about healthcare or science.

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