Abbott reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,400 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 9,400 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
Nov 21, 2021

Beware!

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Pros

Decent products that help patients. Individual Contributors are great people for the most part and really care about their work.

Cons

Work life balance is a joke. R&D management demands unpaid overtime for months or years on end due to poorly managed projects and unrealistic expectations, in-office despite COVID. No help from HR. No team atmosphere, it’s every man for himself with tons of blame game and abuse. Compensation increases are nowhere to be found even for high performing workers. You’ll get lots of experience fighting fires but there is no time for innovation or intentional professional development. Career advancement is extremely slow and political. They are hiring a lot because they’ve lost an alarming number of engineers in 2021 due to all these problems. Not sure management will wake up and actually act differently going forward. They are in denial, don’t want to hear the truth. It wasn’t always this way. Beware.

1.0
Oct 19, 2021

Would never return

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Pros

Nice office and good benefits

Cons

Culture is unbelievably and utterly unreasonable. I had no onboarding and left to find out everything on my own. Practically begged for someone to at least run me through how the organization worked

4.0
Aug 18, 2021

Good benefits. Good people. Advancement opportunities. Corporate bullying.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay and benefits align with expectations for large Healthcare company. Bonus structure is good, although not transparent. Retirement benefits are good, including 401k, pension, and healthcare. Abbott supports employees with expense items (computers, IT support, etc.) they need to do their jobs.

Cons

Abbott is definitely a corporate bully. If you don't agree with celebrating Affinity Groups (LGBTQ, Women Engineers, Black Business Network, etc) If you see these groups as divisive and harmful, keep your mouth shut or you will be black-balled. Covid specific bullying: they require covid testing and reporting on a weekly basis without regard to healthcare privacy. They are requiring people return to office during recent covid surge, regardless of remote work efficiencies and any concern for health. Again, don't ask questions or disagree without being black-balled. Executive team is still an "Old-Boys-Club". We'll see if Ford will change our perpetuate the club.

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