Can't take the Abbott out of AbbVie - Clinical AbbVie Employee Review

3.0
20 Feb 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Career stability with low turnover. Generally friendly and relaxed work environment. Most departments are over-staffed - unlikely to have unmanageable workload. Efforts to encourage work-life balance. Competitive Midwest compensation.

Cons

Stability + modest expectations = mediocre lifelong employees who have no experience outside Abbott/AbbVie. Very process-driven, box checkers thrive. Culture is very slow to change. Hierarchacal and layers upon layers of management in most organizations. Safe, familiar approaches are almost always favored -- entire R&D organization is incredibly risk-averse.

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Pros

Big Pharma Name Recognition: Having Allergan/AbbVie on your resume provides industry visibility.

Cons

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