Beware! - Anonymous Abbott Employee Review

2.0
Nov 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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