Abbot Medical Optics Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Salary compensation was very good, but there was very limited potential for upside for a job well done. Prefer more merit based compensation for objectives being met to encourage staff to do the right things for the business to move it forward.

Cons – Upper management had another agenda; many second guessed your actions and abilities without ever giving opportunity to succeed and shine.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on doing the right things for the people that work at the company, appropriately focus on the the product quality and the outcomes for the final consumer end user.

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Company perks include free meals, and the yearly company parties. They give out pretty good raffle prices at these parties too

Cons – It is like the blind leading the blind. Too much gossip on the floor, managers doing bad stuff with their subordinates, and a lot of favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to the program middle management, don't get involved with office gossip listen to your gut intuitions and do not get caught up with in a popularity game.

Current Employee – been working at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – They are a part of Abbott and the Abbott benefits are outstanding.

Cons – They laid off droves of people to make AMO attractive to Abbott as an acquisition. The consequence is loss of the key skill sets and barely enough people to sustain operations.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop making promises you can't possibly keep.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Good benefits, decent salary, some interesting work

Cons – Management seems focused on protecting their own butts and enforcing the status quo. They're happy to answer questions and help you out... so long as it makes them look and feel more important than you. But there's zero mentorship in or opportunities for career development.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your top talent - challenge them, teach them, move them up through the organization, and encourage them to care more about the product and customer than watching their back.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Subsidized Lasik. Lots of free time to learn new skills (if you are self-motivated.)

Cons – Boring. Short-sighted management. Does not value top performers. Perfect place for career politicians.

Advice to Senior Management – Sell to Abbot Lab, then leave.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – delivering great healthcare solutions to customers, good products. The managers who were with the VISX side of the business are very good managers but AMO overshadowed all of the work that was done there and changed the company culture after they bought it. If you were able to get a VISX manager and some select AMO managers then the experience will be good. They pay quite well for the jobs, are fair with sales comissions and do their best to get the payouts accurate and fair if business is not going as well as planned due economic difficulties. They don't expect poor inductry business to reflect so badly on the employees where they don't have control of that aspect.

Cons – Senior management not clear in decision making, hires and repositions all the old friends for key roles and resist promoting from within the general ranks. Little proactive work to educate and elevate a person to a higher role in the current job, grooming for promotion. Little recognition for a job well done, easily forgotten if something negative occurs. No out of the box thinking for new rewards for good work, or tools that are there are not used with any frequency. Upper management relies on past history to tell the story without communicating the new vision or direction with new information, rested on old laurels as a spin off.

Advice to Senior Management – I would suggest they get rid of the old boys club and get better management in from blue chip companies. Put in place ways to truly recognise work above and beyond the call of duty to get more empowerment of people in the job they do.

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Interesting work
Good feeling of helping people
401(k) plan is good

Cons – Senior Management do not seem to know what they are doing. If they weren't all good friends from years back they would have all fired each other by now. Almost all Senior Management came out of Allergan and those in other branches who developed successful businesses independently are psuhed out.
There are too many changes of plan.
Management take care of the details and don't seem to worry about the big picture.
A lot of good people have left and there is a gloomy feeling that things will continue to get worse. The stock price supports that.
There is WAY too much interest in business management bs and not enough focus on product and "gettn er done"

Advice to Senior Management – Resign now.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics full-time for more than a year

Pros – This review only applies to AMO Groningen BV in the Netherlands. I've had very limited contact with colleagues at other AMO locations and even less so at Abbott in general. Not much positive things to say. I did meet some good people there but almost all of them were independent contractors or interns.

Cons – This review only applies to AMO Groningen BV in the Netherlands.

- Having 3 to 5 managers at a time
- Constantly being viewed with disapproval due to my heritage
- Biased research
- Being assigned multiple research project with high expectations and no support
- Low pay with no benefits
- Need to go through layers up layers of authorization to get something (anything!) done

Advice to Senior Management – Be honest with the potential candidate about negative aspects of Dutch culture such as poor customer service, lack of international support in that part of the Netherlands and racism/prejudice against individuals of non-western descent have a huge impact on practical matters. Also, increase the number of qualified engineers while decreasing the number of managers will greatly improve the work done at this company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics full-time for more than a year

Pros – good working environment, supportive team, opportunity

Cons – management, no marketing approach, sales concentrated

Advice to Senior Management – Need to focus on Marketing aspects

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

Former Employee – worked at Abbot Medical Optics

Pros – Very independent and appreciating work environment

Cons – Difficult to find full time opportunitites

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend