Toxic and Underperforming - Anonymous employee AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
Apr 30, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A paycheck and free on-site parking.

Cons

People with Director titles rule by emotions, mostly fear, and have little current knowledge about what it takes to drive to outcomes because they have been at AbbVie too long. Inability to engage meaningfully with team members - including contractors - and often either dictates or micro-manages while contradicting themselves with corporate talk. In many cases, office employees and contractors are told what and how to think as well as how to do their jobs. Entrenched silos even in the same department causes unneeded politics. Inability to plan work but still make it seem like they are in control results in everyone doing everyone else's job so there is constant panic and zero accountability.

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