Abbott reviews

- Management has limited communication and slow decision making. They have a "get it done" to make deadlines mentality, and often poor engineering and decisions are made, which ends up rearing its ugly head at us, both financially and time-wise. - Promotion seems arbitrary; instead of promoting qualified colleagues, they have moved the goal post, and then hire externally. Conversely, I've seen peers promoted to staff or management positions after they flopped at leading a project or managing a new process. THere is no transparent measure for promotion, and there is no obvious way to provide cross-functional feedback besides directly asking the management. - Even in the midst of a pandemic, I do not get a sense the company cares about the livelihood of its employees. "Built as if intended for my family" is the motto, but management does not act like there is semblance of a family or community that cares for one another. It took more than 2 weeks of increasingly serious news about COVID-19 for the company to issue notice about cleanliness and potentially working from home. When such news happens, responses should be in terms of days, not weeks. Good management requires frequent communication, even if the initial communication is not 100% accurate.

Overworked, underpaid. The Atlanta site demands unreasonable amounts of overtime from their employees with little reward. If employees do not want to give all of their free time to the job they are considered to have a "poor attitude" and "not a team player". Production continually increases but the amount of employees performing the hands-on work remains the same or actually decreases leading to a labor shortage that management expects the employees to compensate for rather than fixing the real problem - more workers on the floor. There is a sense of being looked down upon by senior management. Yearly merit increases are minimal regardless of work performance. Internal growth stifled among "lower-level" employees. Regardless of the employees level of experience - management prefers to bring in outside hires rather than promoting from within.