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      ABB

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      ABB reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (8,195 total reviews)
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      Morten Wierod

      86% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      ABB has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,195 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ABB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufatura industry (3.5 stars).

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      8K reviews
      3.0
      Dec 14, 2015

      Dead End Job

      Tax analyst
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Hours, work life balance. Large name recognition.

      Cons

      Culture - too many complainers. Management - no sense of direction.

      3.0
      Dec 1, 2015

      ABB Can be a Good Company Depending on Location

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      ABB has good benefits and offers education assistance and stock options. If you are in the right LBU, the management care about their employees needs and advancement and career development. The right LBU has a great culture that is very open and welcoming.

      Cons

      Management at ABB has no decision making authority. Every decision must go to Zurich for approval before it can be implemented. If you work for ABB in the "wrong" location, management is very closed off. They do not care about their employees and treat them as if they are just disposable commodities. They do not care about what the employee can bring to the company - they only care about the bottom line, saving money and getting their big bonuses.

      2.0
      Jul 17, 2015

      Bureaucracy and lack of strategy

      Director
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, decent benefits, some great colleagues to share the pain with.

      Cons

      Unless you are in Zurich (global HQ), you are considered a second-class employee. Everyone in Zurich thinks they are the best at their job, which simply isn't true. This carries up to the organization, where global hq can tell the regions what to do, and what not to do. As a result, US employees, for example, are mostly order-takers from people who know less about a strategy than they do. Except for the US CEO, upper management is unwilling to challenge anybody that the US has a better vision and strategy of where to take the company. The global CEO has no vision yet micromanages his leadership team to ensure no one else gets to challenge him. He is not customer-focused, just buzzword-focused.

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