Abbott Nutrition Reviews

Pros

Colleagues, benefits are good, secure company, flexi time available to some staff

Cons

Salary, depends on your department for career progression, none in the department I worked in. Impossible to get on training courses etc. Reduce costs is the bottom line. Expected to just know everything - no proper training, thrown into job. A lot of temp contracts offered and employees not told till a few days before they are due to finish that they got an extension. Some employees offered permanent contracts but on <30 hours and have fought hard to get it increased to 39 hours and cant, they are biding their time to leave and look for full time hours elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Abbott claim to only want the best, offer better starting salaries. Lot of people have taken pay cuts to work for abbott, and no negotiation, they were told take it or leave it, there is a queue of people wanting to work here. The attitude is this is a secure company, secure job you should be grateful. You will not attract the best in industry.

Pros

Most of the poeple I've worked with over the years are genuinely interested in doing a good job.

Cons

You never get away from "the job". The expectation is that you're on call 24/7 and they burn people out. The departments are too lean, everyone is doing at least 2 jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to lead, stop being afraid to make a decision.

Pros

great, smart nice people around

Cons

pay is substandard, should do better

Advice to Senior Management

should give people better recognition

Pros

Quality of the employees & compensation and benefit packages are the strengths of working at Abbott Nutrition

Cons

It's very political and there is a true lack of good managers with integrity and true value of its employees. Seem to reward and keep poor performers but not the good ones always.

Advice to Senior Management

To listen to employees and not all good individual contributors can be good managers

Pros

The benefits were amazing and they had a good bonus structure along with a company car. They do have good products that can actually help you in all forms of life from infant to fitness nutrition to adult nutrition.

Cons

This was the worst back stabbing company I've ever worked for. The term "throwing you under the bus" gets thrown around, but never have I experienced anything like this. The only way you will get ahead in this company is if you have no heart and are willing to throw everyone around you "under the bus" in order to make yourself look good. People are quitting left and right in the past 2 years and nobody seems to realize that it is the extremely poor management to blame. Although money incentives were nice, saying "good job" every once in awhile would have been great too. I've never felt more degraded and put down in my entire life as in my yearly reviews and one on ones. Everyone in the company puts on an extremely "fake" hat on and pretends they love their job when most of them are absolutely miserable. They DO pay well though, which makes people stay and put up with the extreme politics. Not worth it to me.

Advice to Senior Management

Say "Thank You" when someone does something great. Quit being so political and start being real people, people are quiting because some people(not all) in management are degrading and over critical only to make themselves look good. HR should be looking at managers who have a high turn around rate for their team!!!!! There is an obvious reason that my entire new hire team have all quit. Start demoting some managers that aren't right and promote those who deserve it. Look at personality more than just "brag books". Personality will get teams to work together better, brag books are selfish pages of accomplishments.

Pros

The company has great benefits, great products, and strong commitment to quality. In addition, it can throw a tremendous amount of resources at any problem.

Cons

To much emphasis on appearances and micro managing from Chicago leads to low morale and overwhelming feeling that management is distrustful of its employees in Columbus.

Advice to Senior Management

Your employees in Columbus could be yourally in accomplishing your strategic goals if you would let them. In short, you need to identify goals, set objectives, and then get out of their way.

Pros

Abbott Nutrition provides a good training program for sales people.
Management, for the most part, is professional.
There are many opportunities for growth and promotion within the greater Abbott organization.

Cons

There have been too frequent changes in direction corresponding to changes in management. Often mistakes made in the past have been repeated because institutional memory is lost due to turnover.
Abbott Nutrition has an unexciting product line.

Pros

well treated and a good place to get experience and knowledge

Cons

need to learn a lot of things in short time.Therefore, be a fast learner

Advice to Senior Management

keep it up with all the hard work that maintain staff loyalty

Pros

benefits, benefits, benefits, benefits. The Abbott Labs folks on top will cut any and all to save the dividend and profits. As an investor a safe bet for now.

Cons

A big name with some small people running it into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the arrogance and the micro management.

Pros

Good Benefits, entreprenurial spirit, work life balance mostly, stay out of underperforming areas and be cogniscient of WIC. They can't track effectiveness well. Probably moving to a DTC model or outsorcing of reps in the very near future

Cons

lack of understanding of the market. Senior leadership is clueless.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer support. Off er understanding. Have patience. Better understand what dirves effectiveness