Vantaggi
I will try my best to give a fair review. This review only holds true to Tuas office and in particular, Admin Building which consists of Quality, Supply Chain, Lab, Tech Ops, Finance etc. There are some overlaps of manufacturing, engineering, warehousing. Please note this review does not represent other offices or department. 1. The best comp and ben Among the different sectors, AbbVie has one of the best benefits, transport allowance goes up to $500, flexible benefit allow us to claim many different categories, and bonus is stable too. Island wide transportation. Free parking. In-house canteen food which constantly upgrades itself. Company tend to give quite a number of freebies once in a while. High base pay. No other sector can match, perhaps on par to IT. 2. ED&I There is diversity. A good mix of races and nationality. Its not like Shopee where one department look and communicate in one language. Global counterparts is open to your timing, well-being. I am glad to have colleagues from all over the world. You get to develop many different perspectives due to the international exposure
Svantaggi
While AbbVie Operations Singapore has one of the best perks, it really fall short in terms of work environment, the culture and its people. 1. Limited WFH privileges Global direction allowed WFH opportunities but Singapore factory have their own set of direction and instructions. Once return to office was announced, management decided to give a knee jerk reaction and made it compulsory for all to return to office 2. High turnover rate Please probe further why this position is open, why there are many same openings throughout the year. Most importantly, what happen to the previous person. Throughout my time, I literally saw the whole team resigning. This ranged from Engineering, HR, Procurement, Warehousing, etc 3. Prevalent silo mentality Teams who are supposed to work with you will push away work and say it's not their job. Its entirely in their interests not to help you resolve them. We have routine meetings throughout the week but for most cases, only 1 person contributes and that would be the host. Before I resign, we still had meeting in office but used Microsoft Teams. 4. Long time staff bullying Seniors who have effectively burrowed into the system will use their institutional knowledge of convoluted processes, policies and precedence to frustrate you at every turn and send you on wild goose chases. You're pretty much at their mercy unless they choose to be helpful. Quality tend to gang up and bully other departments. I recall several meetings where middle managers was just finding all sorts of reasons to reject the work and push it to me to solve it. 5. Lean Team, High workload My team was very lean. The workload is high and nothing is done to evenly distribute the work. I understand headcount is very sensitive, all businesses want to cut costs, but this has been brought up to senior management even before my time back in 2015. Yet till 2022, you don't do anything about it? Don't pay us 4K and expect us to work around the clock. There needs to be a fine balance of work and life. Report to office at 8, clock out at 5, attend daily nightcalls, even on Friday night. How do you expect individuals to not burnout? When the whole team left in the same year, management decided to take their time recruiting. They tend to argue among themselves justifying the vacant position then thinking about the current team who has to support roles outside of the job.