Horrible place to work - Anonymous employee Abbott Employee Review

1.0
May 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation and retirement plan which incentivizes people to learn how to play the system (not necessarily to produce results) and stay around forever if they can

Cons

99.99% of your rating is about politics, they are trying to develop managers in global marketing who have no business managing people (and are generally just not good human beings), people that stay do so because the compensation and retirement plan is outstanding which has the unintended consequence of keeping dinosaurs who have learned how to play politics more than get anything done

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