Abbott Labs Reviews

Pros

Benefits are good. Salary average.

Cons

Slow to change. Trying to be more open with communication.

Advice to Senior Management

need new products

Pros

large company - anonymity, stability, great benefits (depends on how long you stay with company), within limits an open culture

Cons

Large company - too structured, limited opportunity to shine or grow unless someone from top management can sponsor you

Advice to Senior Management

Not really - doing a great job. As an employee I may not like many things, as a shareholder, I may not mind them

Pros

The workplace overall was very nice. Nice building. Some people outside your department are very friendly.

Cons

Your coworkers will eat you alive. None sensitive nor helpful. It's a dog-eat-dog environment. They'd sell you out for a quarter if it made them look good to upper management. Especially those who got promoted by walking on people's backs. Beware.

Advice to Senior Management

None really. They encourage the game to be played in the first place.

Pros

Lots of different job duties
Possibilities to grow into other roles

Cons

Integration of information
lack of recognition
Little visibility
If you dont know anyone you will never make success
Affiliates are not well run
Guessing game who will be promoted or not

Advice to Senior Management

Is it a global company or a Us company? Make up your mind
Do not promote yes people to senior management
Capability assessment also on senior management not only friendship

Pros

Benefits are good. The work is not difficult at all. Pay is decent.

Cons

Lack of managment leadership. Employees have no advancement opportunity in this area. Motivation is low due to lack of respect shown by management. It's become dog eat dog. Who you know and whether you can play the game. Appreciation for talents and what you have to offer the company doesn't exist.

Advice to Senior Management

Breathe, relax, and remember your employees are human not drones. While the higher management does well with directing the company and making it successful, managment at sites could use some help with understanding that the ability to lead people is pretty big on their day to day to do list.

Pros

1. Company Reputation
2. Benefits
3. Variety of jobs within the organization

Cons

1. "Big Brother" legal environment
2. Masses of salaried professionals justifying their jobs with meaningless, unproductive actions
3. no ears to the ground, top-down management
4. management has created a culture of FEAR

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to single representatives specializing in (selling) one or two products in larger geographic areas. Abandon TEAM SELLING and reward individual sales performance. Hire and promote visionaries and entrepeneurs. Discourage, rather than encourage "robotic" behavior. Form alliances with major pharma manufacturers and lobby major medical associations and healthcare providers for better "access" to prescribers, and provide patients with affordable access to your products. More
R & D of INNOVATIVE products, less acquisition of mediocre products to expand your lines.

Pros

Good benefits- healthcare, vacation, maternity/paternity leave

Cons

horrible management- fails to develop their employees

Advice to Senior Management

Take a management class that teaches you how to effectively manage people

Pros

The environment was less stressful than many of my peers described at their respective companies. There was also an annual profit sharing check right before Christmas! One of few companies to have 401K and Pension Plans.

Cons

Salaries were conservative in comparison to some other companies in industry.

Pros

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with study team. Completes ad hoc requests from CRAs; reconciles study documents throughout the study in preparation for study close-out; may co-monitor with CRA assigned to study site.

Cons

Assists functional areas/CRO to obtain user access for internal systems used by Clinical for randomization, study tracking and document tracking. Assists study team with set-up of internal systems.

Advice to Senior Management

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with study team. Completes ad hoc requests from CRAs; reconciles study documents throughout the study in preparation for study close-out; may co-monitor with CRA assigned to study site.

Pros

Great benefits, great training, company is accountable in the public eye for its products and takes good care of its employee in general

Cons

Managers vary from area to area and the SOuthern Primary Care area managers are not very professional and do not treat their reps with very much respect, Tom Paullus is a pretty hideous example of this behavior

Advice to Senior Management

Reverse feedback about regional directors and managers and specific steps to remedy issues, these employee set the tone for the field reps and can motivate or destroy morale