Abbott reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(9,415 total reviews)
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Robert Ford

77% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Abbott has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,415 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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2.0
Oct 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pension is a plus. Good 401k match. Generous parental leave.

Cons

The culture. Abbott treats their employees as if they’re disposable. They do not proactively promote or care about career development. Base salaries are also well below the industry standard. If you’re a member of the sales team, expect leadership to play games with the comp plan and not pay you what you earned. If they ask you to go above and beyond on something they say they will pay you for, get it in writing or they will backtrack and not do so. Middle and upper management is led by the worst people - they will micromanage and throw you under the bus to save their own skin while providing you little support. Management would rather be feared than loved. Leadership also likes to talk about strategy, but in reality they’re just financial/sales goals with no actual strategy on how they plan to achieve those goals. I’ve never worked for a company that had so many awful people in leadership positions. You will burn out and be miserable here in due time.

2.0
Apr 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No transparency, a lot of promise from the job description but fell short of expectations. they do spend a great deal on promoting themselves as a brand They do have good vacation but this is a audit friendly company , hence you have to schedule them only when there is no audits which is rare.

Cons

the job description that I applied to and got selected was IT related but the team that I joined was a some record keeping and doc control (more clerical). there was one aspect of the role that was IT related but not all of it.(which accounted for <40% of the role) the hiring manager retired and the replacement manager although realized the need for the role but decided on molding me into her area of expertise. She had a dislike for me from the beginning very evident in the way she picked on me, she even gave me partial achieved performance review just 5 months into the job. Her mocking at my IT specific skills proved that she didn't take time to know my background and also her knowledge in the subject. She always took sides with the other team member, wonder if it was because I was a person of color. Although there is HR related course on unconscious bias, diversity and stuff, you could definitely see a shift in behavior if you are white. There is a diversity program but no inclusion and equity. Also got to experience some uncivil behavior from manager of manufacturing, he would send emails that bad mouthed you and make it appear like an oopsy. I guess Abbott should invest in some behavioral and team building workshops, as from my experience they are very unprofessional and unpolished warehouse like environment. I do thank the manager for creating a hostile environment, if not for her I wouldn't have been forced look outside of Abbott and be in a much better state of bliss.

1.0
Feb 9, 2022

aged company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

From the company, there are many policies and benefits, but they look overshadowed by the current leadership.

Cons

There are many leaders without experience, they have a lot of years inside of the organization, but they don´t have experience in the new market, don´t know about new technologies, best practices, and, it's constantly the use of micromanagement.

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