Nov 7, 2014
Abbott reviews
3.7
69% would recommend to a friend
Robert Ford
76% approve of CEO
61% positive business outlook
Abbott has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,441 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Abbott employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
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1.0
Nov 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros
Good benefits if you can manage to stay for ten years.
Cons
The working environment is very poor. Moral is awful, productivity is very low, and it is a CYA environment.
1.0
Oct 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros
Sufficiently resourced with people to do what needs to get done. Abbott Vascular in Temecula has laid of more than half its employees (2000+) in recent years. Abbott in Redwood City, about 2 miles from Menlo Park is transferring the entire facility production to Ireland. Despite plenty of skilled workers, Abbott Menlo Park continues to sponsor people from Ireland to fill the best facility positions. In order to sponsor someone for employment from another country, you have to establish a deficit of workers in the United States qualified to fill the position. With 2000+ laid off in Temecula, and relocating the entire facility that is a few miles away from Menlo Park (the Redwood City facility), there is plenty of internal / US based talent to fill the positions available in Menlo Park. If you post a position for 'Plant Manager', 'Manufacturing Engineer', 'Manufacturing Engineering Manager' or any of the positions which have been filed through sponsorship, you will get dozens of applications of qualified medical device professionals. The upper management of the facility prefer to hire their own people from Ireland because it improves their own position in the company. This can be considered an 'agency cost', which the exponential increased cost incurred by large company due to the difficulty in effectively monitoring for detrimental behavior of it's employees. The management has facilitated sponsorship of their girlfriends and spouses and put them in key positions for which they are unqualified. Audit findings have found that many of them have been promoted to positions they have no experience in and are out of compliance with QS Regulations regarding qualified resourcing. Some of these employees have been removed from their positions due to lack of qualifications. I have a little Irish blood in me so I considered this a Pro :P I'm just kidding here, but in all seriousness this is not a Pro.
Cons
About a year ago the management decided to stop 2nd shift production and only have 1st shift production. Not only did all of the 2nd shift have to rearrange their lives to start work at 5am, but their pay was also cut by 10%. Many of the employees receiving pay cuts had no knowledge or statement in their employment contract that mentioned that they were receiving a 10% benefit for working 2nd shift (a preferred shift by most employees). Many employees had recently left other positions to come to Abbott only to show up to their new job and receive a 10% pay cut within a month or 2 and be told that they would have to be into work at 5am. The reason employees were told that 2nd shift was being cut was due to demand, yet no layoff occurred, only a shift of employees to 1st shift and almost no attrition. Within 6 months, management decided that they had made a mistake and reopened the 2nd shift saying that there had been an increase in demand, again disrupting the lives of all of its employees for reasons that provided no benefit to the company. Demand forecasting did not support the loss or increase in demand for the product.
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