ABB (United States) Reviews in Raleigh-Durham, NC Area

Current Employee – been working at ABB (United States) full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Ethic company, strong principles, very global and with opportunities.

Cons – Complex organization, slow to make changes

Advice to Senior Management – We should promote people more for competencies and merits then seniority and personal friendship. There is a lot of incompetent people working with big teams because of personal reasons, not because they desire the position.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ABB (United States) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The company is very diverse culutrally.

Cons – Women are not treated as equals. Women are limited in their ability to advance.

Advice to Senior Management – Diversity and Inclusion are important. Do not think you have done enough by following EEO guidelines. An active affirmative action program should be in place.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ABB (United States) full-time

Pros – It's a job with a decent salary. Annual bonuses. Convenient location off of freeway.

Cons – Management is very untrustworthy and rude to its employees. Unnecessary long hours when there is very little going on.

Advice to Senior Management – Start trusting and empowering your employees rather than doubting them if you want to get quality work and production.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ABB (United States) as an intern for less than a year

Pros – The work environment is very admirable. Working with a team is one of the best experiences to have when dealing with any discipline of engineering.

Cons – I enjoyed my experience. No complaints here.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you are doing. The management staff at ABB are always on their toes and get the job done well.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ABB (United States) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Offer great benefits for older employees, including 401k match, pension and bonuses. Also offer education assistance towards a degree program. Good for college graduates to accumulate experiences during the first 2-3 years for his first job.

Cons – The HR is the worst in the world. The entire HR system in the company is so flawed. In most other companies, HR is a service department. Here in ABB, HR is an authority. Even line managers have to listen to HR in a lot of things (they basically have veto power), such as the decision to hire someone, the decision to promote someone, or give someone a raise. The efficiency of HR is just unbelievably slow. One guy walked into the HR office and before he could even say a word, the HR lady yelled at him: I am doing this for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is even worse, HR would make up things to managers and employees to let them fight against each other. Totally unethical.

Salary raise is ridiculous. The env does not encourage best performers at all. I made half of what some of the senior technical guys make but did twice the work. That's why it's only good for your first job right out of school. After 2-3 years, you have to move on to somewhere else to pursue other opportunities or you will have to wait forever (10+) for your turn. The benefits and salary mechanism encourages old employees to stay forever. There are so many senior people. Young guys just don't get appreciated, even though their contributions might be much more than old guys. It's a place for retirement and early learning, not when you are at your best.

Advice to Senior Management – reward performance, not seniority

Current Employee – been working at ABB (United States)

Pros – Managment not on your back pretty good working conditions fairly stress free.

Cons – not a lot of direction on priorites

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ABB (United States)

Pros – Money is excellent for the level of work expected
Compensation is not standard -- employees can negotiate compensation to their advantage

Cons – Compensation is not uniform among employees
Senior employees are highly compensated
Bonuses may not be directly linked to individual performance

Advice to Senior Management – Pay should be directly linked to individual performance, health benefits should be competitive in the market, invest in wellness activities

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ABB (United States)

Pros – work life balance is good

Cons – low pay for the current marketplace

Advice to Senior Management – have better communication with all employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ABB (United States)

Pros – Unlimitted possibilities for technical growth, but still enough time for personal and family life.

Cons – The salary increases subjected to company-wide limits.

Advice to Senior Management – In my opinion, the company should invest more in new technologies and be the leader from the point of view of research and development, and not only from the point of view of sales.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ABB (United States)

Pros – Working at ABB US Corporate Research was great. The research was all geared towards improving the products developed by ABB and the people were great to work with. It's an international company, so collaboration with people in other countries was encouraged and often made for better products.

Cons – There could be more grooming of technical researchers into research managers.

Advice to Senior Management – The treatment of technical professionals has been good...It'll be good to see more (software) technical researchers given the opportunity to lead.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend