Management shamelessly lies to prospective candidates during interviews about opportunities, culture, and your ACTUAL JOB.
- JOB DESCRIPTION- Everyone gets told that they will be working on regulatory tasks that involve using your brain, and this is consistent with their job description. But, once you are onboarded you soon realize that your job is primarily composed of two things:
1) being a labeling technician or coordinator who manually implements labeling for multiple products for all countries and all languages. That's right! They will have you vouch for labeling in languages that you don't know. To add to your misery, all Abbott Vascular products are from the jurassic period, so they are already registered in hundreds of countries. Now, your job is to manually ensure that you post the right IFU version in the right language(s) for all the right countries. So that's X products x say 267 countries... you do the misery math. Even though this is your primary job function, management refuses to add it to the job description or disclose it during the interview process.
2) being a glorified assistant who performs printing, scanning, notarizing, stamping, and shipping of documents for global regulatory requests. This is basically a high school interns job, but at Abbott Vascular.. this is performed by the regulatory specialists and project managers. Again, they conveniently keep forgetting to disclose this during the interview.
OPPORTUNITIES- If you are able to adequately suck up to management by taking on event planning & travel scheduling tasks and staying for several years (because maybe you are on a work visa?), then you may get to put your name on an actual regulatory submission. However, you will not be authoring the submission. LOL. Management will ask you to send the submission template to the engineers for doing the regulatory writing. So you will basically learn no useful skills for your next job.
CULTURE: the toxicity is as contagious as COVID-19. Oh, and by the way Abbott wouldn't let us Work From Home during a pandemic and a national emergency caused by this coronavirus.
The 3 pillars of toxicity include:
- Unprofessional conduct: the long time Abbott employees seem to have no training in regard to proper conduct at work.
- "clicks" based on ethnicity: If you are a white man here... phew! good luck!...unless you can join our bollywood dance troop at work? In other words, the diversity in RA is embarrassing.
- Work visas: what better way to have a hostage work force that will keep its heads down for the sake of maintaining their visa status? Also, why is our government giving skilled worker visas to do an admin's job?
