AbbVie Reviews

Pros

Supportive culture, focus on improving company through improving team working, recognising strengths and weaknesses, how best to work with colleagues, good opportunities for improving skills. Embedding patient centricity as core to all decisions, innovative thinking rewarded.

Cons

As in all Pharma, can be some red tape to get through when trying to make changes e.g. implementing digital campaigns, but this is definitely improving.

Pros

Good working environment, supportive colleagues and attractive salary packages.

Cons

For a new company, presence of an ageing management team with no vision is alarming and those with vision are not valued. Culture improvement attempts are high in number but mostly unsuccessful, hence still not much change for the better. Weak HR team.

Pros

Nice office with a gym and cafe on site; flexible working arrangements; good culture

Cons

difficult to maintain work-life balance

Pros

Very fast career progression provided you work on the most challenging projects that are under the spotlight by senior management

Cons

High staff turnover due to most challenging projects not having effective management. Exceptionally poor business systems which are from the 1980s which results in very slow improvements and overall makes the business of getting things done quite slow and archaic compared to other pharmaceutical companies

Advice to Management

Redress your business systems make them more automated with good UI if this is completed you will observe a business transformation beyond your wildest.

Pros

I have learnt a lot in my position and have been given opportunity to progress. There is a general sense both in myself and from the work colleagues that the organisation promotes friendly and productive reltionships at work.

Cons

Despite continuous negative feedback work life balance remains major challange. It is not possible to meet deadlines without putting in extra hours on a daily basis.

Pros

Lots of opportunities with some new products coming to market and always an acquisition of some company or other. Everyone wants to be involved in the new shiny products.....very resource heavy with lots of people to get lost in!

Cons

Still living in the old Humira days with ‘this is how we used to do it’ mentality. Got very greedy. Sadly the management is all over the place and no identity lost its ‘culture’. Have a very hire and fire mentality with very little consideration for human beings. (Yes a bitter aftertaste!)

Advice to Management

Be true to the human beings that are working for you. Too much unnecessary pressure to perform which is invalid especially for the new product launches. Disinterest in the people side of the business affects many and causes ‘toxic’ environment

Pros

Good package but not worth the bullying culture, I am struggling with cons other than they have good products and really good sales people shame they can’t retain them

Cons

Bullying culture and ineffective management , if your face fits culture . Horrendous management with zero people skills which was reflected in the GPTW survey

Advice to Management

Stop the if your face fits culture and stop managing out good employees

Pros

New to industry opportunities and you get to work with some incredible people in a fast paced environment.

Cons

I refused to sign off an inappropriate brand campaign, which could harm patients and was subsequently managed out of my role, despite being the therapy area expert for years. Money is more important to this company then patients and they'll happily bleed communities dry to improve their sales. The culture is a hierarchy of power with fear and intimidation for those who question why or just say no. It's a miserable... life and you will get bullied.

Advice to Management

Whistleblower process and protection.