Fantastic people on the ground, terrible management and HR - Pharmaceutical Sales Representative AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
Nov 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting products so you can get good experience of selling high value low volume products. You genuinely feel you can make a positive difference to patients lives. Plus the best guys on the ground I have ever worked with.

Cons

Management are clueless. They manage by fear, blame, buck passing. Way to many middle managers, I have never worked in a company where there are so many managers that appear to do nothing. The worst thing about the company is the way they treat employees who offer an opinion when they are asked for open and honest feedback by mgmt. I agree with a previous reviewer, the 2 days extra holiday if you scored the annual survey higher really sat uncomfortably with me

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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