ABB reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(8,187 total reviews)
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Morten Wierod

86% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

ABB has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,187 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ABB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jul 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, decent benefits, some great colleagues to share the pain with.

Cons

Unless you are in Zurich (global HQ), you are considered a second-class employee. Everyone in Zurich thinks they are the best at their job, which simply isn't true. This carries up to the organization, where global hq can tell the regions what to do, and what not to do. As a result, US employees, for example, are mostly order-takers from people who know less about a strategy than they do. Except for the US CEO, upper management is unwilling to challenge anybody that the US has a better vision and strategy of where to take the company. The global CEO has no vision yet micromanages his leadership team to ensure no one else gets to challenge him. He is not customer-focused, just buzzword-focused.

4.0
Jul 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, good company, good products. There is still a sense of good collaboration at certain levels of the organization

Cons

Big Changes coming up, everyone stressed about them. A lot of uncertainty Tired of cost reduction programs It is a different company since I started...change slightly in a negative way

2.0
Jul 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation, relocation and medical are average or above but can vary on drastically. When the company is doing poorly, you will notice changes and sometimes be warned ahead of time to layoffs.

Cons

Poor vision in senior management. Driven by a quick fix rule of thumb mentality that causes frequent resurfacing of quality and design issues. Horrific documentation and standard procedures that fall behind 1940’s standards. Most situations involve quality of material and design from poor communication. Although the issues are simple it is often an over clogged funnel of marbles that chokes out the bunch so not even one can be successful.

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