A decent career in IT - Anonymous employee AbbVie Employee Review

4.0
19 May 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Management is aware of what is going on in the company. They are trying to improve things. Learning some skills I did not have outside of here. Worked here for a number of years already and there are some great people.

Cons

Management hires a lot of contractor minorities and foreign workers. Space is tight and sharing cubicles with 2 to 3 coworkers has become a normal everyday thing. Procedures and systems that are cumbersome and do not work very well are developed and utilized. Management says they can not hire people in full time do to a number of reasons. They will give you reasons that won' t make sense when you really start thinking about it.

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