Good Company/Work Must be your Life's Top Priority to Succeed - Pharmaceuticals Sales Representative AbbVie Employee Review

4.0
24 Oct 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, great benefits. Training is good. Leads are handed to you.

Cons

AbbVie is a pharma giant so the job is a template you must follow. Doesn't allow for much creativity in call planning, selling strategy, or lead generation so if you like to be told exactly what to do you'll be happy here. Job also promotes hustle mentality and expects you do to admin on free time so if you have other priorities than work, such as small children, this may take a toll on that.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

love the culture at AbbVie and they have great benefit packages.

Cons

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1.0
3 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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