Toxic work environment - Medical Writer AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Money is really pretty competitive

Cons

Bosses do not support employees. Instead of leadership working with leadership in other departments who have direct reports who work with their own direct reports, they come down hard on their own direct report, blaming them for everything that goes wrong in a project. Bosses are spineless and frightened of other people’s bosses and take the easy way out. This place is full of bullying managers who won’t speak up to other managers. Example: I have a project I need input on from department X. That department is unresponsive. I chase and chase and still no response. I tell my manager they don’t respond and instead of my manager telling the department x manager that their employee is unresponsive, my manager tells me to chase harder and if they continue to be unresponsive, it’s my fault. My failure. Something my end of year bonus rides on. How dare I not get a response from them. I just have to deal with it. Reflect on it. Do better. In other words I get bullied by my boss.

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Cons

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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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