A giant flaming dumpster fed with dysfunction
Pros
Decent benefits. Enough brown nosing or losing the company millions of dollars in product down the drain can get you promoted. Some people are really nice and fun, others are extremely condescending and refer to themselves as cheetahs or oak trees. Also nice Nespresso machine and cookies in the breakroom.
Cons
Do you like dumpster fires? Do you like being in a dumpster on fire? How about being the dumpster on fire that Abzena keeps feeding. Coming into work everyday is like Sisyphus eternally pushing a boulder up a hill that never ends day after day but, the boulder is covered in spikes, filled with broken dreams and promises, and on fire. Upper management enjoys dangling rewards and promotions, promising a bull market, but really is just a load of bull. The lack of integrity makes a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme look like Mother Theresa. I would rather trust a rusty needle off the street than believe what the company tries to project. There are no morals to be found here - going so far as to forcing new employees on orientation day to sign up for glassdoor to write good reviews about the company. HR is unavailable to employees unless HR needs something, just impossible to get ahold of. HR also has a history of sexism, favoring males over females in disputes and neglecting the needs of employees and equality. I cannot rate CEO performance since he has been pushed out but the C-suite refuses to release any information regarding that. I have seen several other leaders get scapegoated and forced out to protect the board's interests. The company does not understand the importance of building decent systems and teams of quality FTEs, every employee is just another number. They would rather pay millions for band-aid solutions than to trust their own employees, then realize they overspend and have to rip the band-aids, slowly bleeding out every employee they have left. It seems the only way to get recognition is to be problematic enough where attention is needed; setting the bar low is the key to advancement at Abzena. Working here is much like the Good Place, it seems nice at first, glossing over the cracks in the system until they become too large to cover up, breaking all pretenses of niceties and dropping you into the toasty pits of the Bad Place. Upper management loves to spy on employees instead of trusting them to do work on their own. Imagine sending a return to work memo with no preparation for everyone to be back on site. Not enough seats, not enough space, not enough desks to work at, not enough parking spaces, no safety protocols but oh wait! We have a new security team on site and speed limit sign in our parking lot and that should make us all feel so much better! The insistence on keeping up with training documents but not providing any real practical training is befuddling until you account for the fact that the outdated electronic records reflect poorly on upper management. Leadership should be playing the world series of poker instead given their ability to lie through their teeth to protect themselves. It was not enough to run one location to the ground, it seemed to the c-suite that the next logical decision was to allow another location to be run into the ground, and then bleed that site's resources dry to get another site up and running. The recent town hall meetings show the company as the dog in the burning building saying everything is fine. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
