QA Training Specialist - QA Training Specialist- Pharmacy AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
30 Jul 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company overall for learning the industry. Great pay and benefits. Steer towards Supply Chain, manufacturing or support areas but stay clear of the pharmacy, at least from my perspective, unless you like running in circles.

Cons

Poor management selection, you have to be a yes man and too many managers with a lack of experience running loose making decisions which can be detrimental to the company when discovered in audits. No real future for the pharmacy if they can't get more products and reduce costs. Changes being made prior to procedures being updated. Sups and managers blatantly telling you to just do it anyway even if a process is wrong.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
3 Jul 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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