Abbott needs to clean house - Anonymous employee Abbott Employee Review

1.0
Jul 26, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice campus - Cafeteria on site - legacy Abbott people/groups (and a few Alere people)

Cons

-Morale - awful -Managers with a my way or the highway behaviors lead to high turnover - doormats and blind servants will thrive and succeed. This behavior trickles down to toxic behaviors at the individual contributor level, who are rewarded for displaying the gold standard. Anyone passionate about their work or anyone with a voice look elsewhere. -Unstable, direction (of the future)changes daily, hard to complete long term projects. It's dysfunctional and abnormal. Don't confuse this with direction of day to day short term goals changing that would be normal. -Poor Quality (disclaimer: there are some good people in quality yet ultimately it suffers since the departments needing quality sign off have the most political power and sucessfully intervene decision making at quality expense)Anyone passionate about quality look elsewhere.

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