Good engineers, vicious management, oppressive environment, bureaucratic quagmire and politically treacherous - Firmware Engineer Abbott Employee Review

2.0
Apr 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent benefits, some nice people, mostly smart colleagues in the technical departments.

Cons

Amazingly dysfunctional IT - it is just astounding - I had to open the same work item a dozen times as they marked it completed without addressing it. Very oppressive feeling - people seem to be scared of each other, very cliquish. Life at ADC is more about looking smart and informed and less about producing results. Management is treacherous, unsupportive, vicious. They're glad to hire several contractors in India instead of engineers in California. Lots of pressure to donate money to select charities - managers are held accountable for their departments' donations to the CEO's old company/charity.

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