Good for starting your career but not for staying and moving up. - Sales Representative AbbVie Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

They’ll give you a chance even for you have minimal experience in this industry

Cons

If you want to advance in a career and get experience with different departments and titles and experiences, I do no recommend this place. Additionally the pay is far below fair market value. If you do well and make any attempt to switch departments, it’s next to impossible to move out of your role. They simply don’t give you opportunities to try your hand in diversifying. HR is totally irresponsible and unresponsive.

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5.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Great place to work. Competitive salary and benefits.

Cons

It has been a great experience for me.

1.0
Jul 3, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Big Pharma Name Recognition: Having Allergan/AbbVie on your resume provides industry visibility.

Cons

Extreme Governance & Bureaucracy: Allergan is paralyzed by red tape. There are far too many governance layers just to get basic regulatory strategies vetted out. Flawed Compliance Infrastructure: Product approvals are heavily dependent on documentation. However, current records are completely inadequate. Management fundamentally fails to understand how these systems are interlinked. Unqualified & Absentee Leadership: The leader with department oversight completely lacks the expected knowledge and experience for this level, making her a massive liability. She is rarely in the office but knows exactly how to work the system. She aggressively pushes for unnecessary, in-person regulatory meetings solely to accumulate personal travel points rather than to mitigate actual business risks. Disastrous Transition Management: The leadership transition wreaked total havoc across the department. Negligent HR Department: HR shows zero interest in investigating why good talent is leaving the company. Alarming Job Security Signs: It is a massive red flag when a leader encourages employees to apply for roles entirely unrelated to their expertise, or receiving automated AI notifications about job openings outside your department.

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