Abbott Diabetes Care Reviews

Pros

Great Benefits, nice multidisciplinary workplace

Cons

Slow design progress hindered by FDA and QA and documentation practices

Advice to Senior Management

NA I was an intern

Pros

- If you perform well, management looks after you
- New ideas are appreciated and encouraged
- Senior management is extremely talented
- Great location if you like quiet place near bay

Cons

- High salary disparity at the same grade level
- Salary revisions are pretty ordinary evenif you are performing very well
- Work life balance in below average

Advice to Senior Management

- Try to make company more fun place to work
- Continue the good work in growing business for the company

Pros

Salary is top of market

Cons

Lack of stability in product in marketplace

Advice to Senior Management

Better communications to employees

Pros

Health benefits. Co-Workers. Location. Commute.

Cons

Incompetence of management and completly condescending approach to employees and disregard for employees' points of view. Dysfunctional.

Advice to Senior Management

Change it.

Pros

good medical benefits and 401k match

Cons

slow project development
too much management overhead

Pros

The pay is decent and, if you can get a permanent role, there seems to be great job security. I've also heard the benefits are consistent with a larger company (medical options, retirement savings, paid time off).

I hear Abbott is a good company to work for, just not Abbott Diabetes.

Cons

You are a drone in a very large cog. My role was very specialized, which got boring. My manager was awful and, despite bad reviews year after year, will never be let go.

The company hires temporary employees for a good portion of the positions, and will often keep them for 2 years. After two years, the employee is required to take a 30 day unpaid leave before they can return to work. I'm surprised by how often this actually happens... why not just hire your employees on a permanent basis? Don't they want to retain their talent?

The management team will also pass their projects on to the temp employees to complete, then pass the work off as their own.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire your temp employees on a permanent basis, so they can experience the same benefits that you have. They obviously deserve them, because they are doing a large portion of your work for you.

Pros

Decent benefits, some nice people, mostly smart colleagues in the technical departments.

Cons

Amazingly dysfunctional IT - it is just astounding - I had to open the same work item a dozen times as they marked it completed without addressing it.
Very oppressive feeling - people seem to be scared of each other, very cliquish.
Life at ADC is more about looking smart and informed and less about producing results.
Management is treacherous, unsupportive, vicious.
They're glad to hire several contractors in India instead of engineers in California.
Lots of pressure to donate money to select charities - managers are held accountable for their departments' donations to the CEO's old company/charity.

Advice to Senior Management

Fix the IT department. Don't lay off entire departments (like marketing) because upper-management cannot make things work. Don't advertise that Miles makes $20-30 million per year while outsourcing, laying off, and canceling projects. Remove as much red tape as possible.

Pros

Good, competent co-workers.
Good location
Big Abbott Resources available
Good benefits
Diabetes community involvement
Decent products

Cons

Virtually non-existant upward career growth
Clear favoritism in promotions/recognition
Too much red-tape in the wrong places
Lack of clear processes
Mid-management has too many people afraid to make decisions

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in infrastructure and improve the career advancement opportunities for employees based on competency. This will help keep knowledgeable people and help them be more efficient and motivated.

Pros

Good package, work not too complex

Cons

Work badly hindered by poor, dated systems and conservative mgmt

Advice to Senior Management

KISS, invest in good quality systems

Pros

Stable
On-Site Cafeteria
Corporate Environment
Some Schedule Flexibility
Team Activities
Corporate DIscounts & Programs
Good Benefits
Educated Staff-if unimaginative and

Cons

Bogged Down
Ineffectual
Beaurocractic
Endless Meetings
Stagnant
No challenge, but exasperation-project work is dull and overwhelmed with input without action.