If you have Career Aspiration, don't go to AbbVie - Anonymous employee AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
31 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great money, benefits are good but typical of other companies.

Cons

You will not advance further in your career here unless you have a friend in a higher position and will promote you. AbbVie is not merited, its all about who you know and how long you have been here. Very unfair and nepotistic. I would not recommend this company to anyone. Leadership is terrible and don't care much for staff development. They will talk all day long about development but it is all lip service. If you have not come to this company from Abbott, good luck getting promoted no matter how good your reviews are. Can't work from home and peers are backstabbing and no one is trustworthy. They will throw you under the bus then next minute because they see you as a competition to get ahead.

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Thank you for sharing your honest feedback. Your experience is not consistent with what we value – which is to bring together experts from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovation solutions for patients. It’s essential to our business.

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