Abbott reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(9,444 total reviews)
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Robert Ford

76% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Abbott has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,444 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
Aug 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Close to shopping and dining Ample parking Easy access from highway Well-lit sidewalks and parking structures

Cons

Project schedules/resources based on "when we need it done/what can we scrounge up" instead of "what is a rational, achievable timeline/what do we need to hit that deadline." New projects are resourced by farming out tasks to employees who are tangentially involved but otherwise already 100% allocated. The output is often long overdue and of poor quality because these tasks are become rush jobs done by overworked employees. As a consequence of the first two observations, lots of finger-pointing, little root cause analysis

3.0
Mar 20, 2011

It was all right, nothing special

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The workplace overall was very nice. Nice building. Some people outside your department are very friendly.

Cons

Your coworkers will eat you alive. None sensitive nor helpful. It's a dog-eat-dog environment. They'd sell you out for a quarter if it made them look good to upper management. Especially those who got promoted by walking on people's backs. Beware.

3.0
Nov 16, 2008

One person's experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Still offer pension plan and 401k and their stock is fairly stable. They are very socially conscious and they try to do the right things for customers and employees. Great gym with personal trainers available to salaried employees. Company is family friendly and offers a few flex-time options (though, many managers don't allow flex-time).

Cons

They like to say "quality", but have little clue on how to actually achieve quality. Senior management tends to hire former auditors to determine how to get quality product. While auditors know how not to do things, they are typically poor at saying how TO do things. They have difficulty doing long-term planning beyond 2 years. Middle management is incompetent and/or afraid to communicate upwards or step out of their comfort zone. New computer systems (documentation systems, databases, etc) often are compliant to regulations, but fail to implement gains that could be had with electronic systems (systems are usually much less efficient than even a fully paper-based system would be).

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