project manager

financial analyst

analyst

senior analyst

intern

Abt Global

I'm a legacy employee from SRBI. i haven't had the opportunities my colleagues and peers have had. Tried to get promoted several times, been shot down an equal amount of times. My requests for a raise have been tabled. I think I'm pigeonholed. I want to take on bigger roles and have more engaging work but those ops are not presented to me. Direct management haven been honest to me (as much as they can be without being bluntly demoralizing). Upper senior management is where you'll find deflected responses and unclear replies to the simple inquiries. 

A typical day for me is coming in, having coffee, checking my email, and doing whatever work is available for me. In between all of that, I am soliciting senior staff for more work (I am a wage worker, not salaried) and asking them how I can improve myself. At this point its moot but depression has never stopped me from being functional. Anyone working here will need to be acclimated to that. 

The culture is pretty non existent. Get work done, don't be disruptive, and you'll get paid. The most difficult thing here would be the pigeonhole I (and hopefully you won't) find myself in. I didn't go to college to just be told I'm not good enough to be anything more than a "cost efficient" option. I'm not striving to enhance my comprehension of everything to simply do monotonous work everyday for a subpar wage. 

The most enjoyable part is the new tasks that I receive that challenge me. The tasks that allow me to give some recognizable input into a project. Free coffee is cool also but youll need to bring your own milk.

With that being said, this is my experience and hopefully the worse that can happen at this company. An outlier at best. YMMV.

A typical day at work was lots of paperwork, reviewing surveys, editing them, training coders, training interviewers, coding data, crunching numbers (data)

I learned about survey research, coding, etc.

Management was pretty good, stable work environment, professional staff.  You will be treated pretty nicely, like a professional.  Not much turnover.  

HR was a bit nasty - at one point they threatened to not allow me to take off for the Jewish holidays (!) 
However, management quickly assured me that, regardless of HR, Jewish employees were excused from work on those days - this was widely understood by managers, and no one made a big deal about it. (except HR - who managers ignored on this issue!)  Pretty cool in the end...

Coworkers were nice enough.  Some were sort of...middle of the road sorts of people.  Not all were intellectual per se (as you might expect at a research firm).  Some were...kind of boring!  But civil enough.

The hardest part of the job was that long hours were required at times.  Working overtime (no overtime pay), working some evenings, even a long night or two to meet a deadline was necessary and expected on occasion.

The most enjoyable part of the job I would say was the civilized work environment.  A rarity these days...

Goods:
You get to make your own schefule

Bads:
Don't expect a rasise was working there for 3 years and never received a raise 

Managers have favorites and and if you dont get along with them or their friends that work there dont expect to get ahead when there is new projects or when there is open positions

If they assign you to a project that they need people to work in  they will tell you that you have to work mandatory til 11 at least 3 days but  dont take considerations school or another job so then when you make arrangements to stay they cut the hours from 11 til 8

If they need people for the morning projects  once again be a managers favorite or be buddy buddy with their friends that work there if not you wont get selected cause they literally choose the same people as always and they say its by performance but yet some of the people they choose dont get surveys at night or they call in or are late but yet get chosen for the morning

If they catch you talking to your neighbor or over the cubicle expect a write up or final unles your really close with the managers all youll get is a no talking please but the other person thats isnt close to them will get in trouble i had a few friends that got in trouble for this 
All in all it comes down to you being really close with the managers if you want to move up or get more hours or stay out of trouble if not expect the opposite

This company has terrible organization and communication skills. 
The managers for the position I work for are absolutely ignorant and incoherent to hearing anything other then what goes on in their heads. Even with the flexibility of my hours, the pay is never enough. Because I work remote if I ever have connection issues or any problems with my device I have to email my supervisors to give them a notice, but to my expense of not working the hours I need to make money I have to wait for my managers to message me back which could take hours. Then to my surprise I get told I am not doing what I’m supposed to. 
All this company does is find people who are willing to be understanding of their rudeness. They are impatient and yet at the same time very late with their responses, how does that even work? Expecting us to answer the second they email us, but they don’t answer us until hours after when we emailed them. 
I would NOT recommend you working here if you are kind and patient because this company is the type to take advantage of this. Overall I would suggest nobody work here because even though this is an easy way to get money quickly and their hrs are “flexible”  their management makes it Unbearable. Then again if you can put up with all this go for it. 

For a low-paying remote position the Research Interviewer job could have potentially been enjoyable but the complete lack of communication, inadequate training, and lack of any feedback other than occasionally being berated by shift supervisors for not meeting arbitrary and unclear production expectations made this job a miserable and consistently disappointing experience. Having call center and phone survey experience prior to working for Abt made the job tolerable at first (and arguably made me more successful at it, not that I was ever once given any positive feedback whatsoever) but as new projects with badly-written surveys and inadequate training were assigned I became increasingly uncomfortable with the work and work environment. This is clearly a company whose mission has been overshadowed by a focus on profits at the expense of its poorly paid and and even more poorly treated staff. The shockingly poor quality of work combined with a draconian attitude towards the people doing that work made me embarrassed to work there.

There are much better companies hiring for this kind of work, I'd suggest applying at any of them before considering a job with Abt.

A typical day at work started with reading and responding to e-mails, followed by attention to my duties as contract manager for the Health, Finance and Governance (HFG) project. The HFG project was a $212 million dollar cooperative agreement funded by USAID to improve the health outcomes of people living in third world countries through the development and implementation of more effective health delivery systems. A typical day's duties usually entailed meeting with my supervisor work priorities, such as preparing an RFP, meting with technical leads to more clearly define contract tasks and deliverables, evaluating proposals, negotiating contract price and content, obtaining approvals from Abt's corporate contracts office and USAID's contracting officers representative (COR).  The most challenging part of the job was delivering high quality work products in a dynamic environment with short deadlines and competing priorities. The most enjoyable part of the job was receiving working closely with technical leads in clearly defining contract specifications and acknowledgements from management for a job well done.

As a survey interviewer, my affiliation at this company began with a project with a decent CDC contract.  That project paid fairly.  After it ended, I was then offered another, but at half the previous rate.  As I was looking for another job, (I accepted as it was flexible and in the evening.)  However, it has been months since I worked here with no raise or offers of a better project.  

So, if you want something that is more like a hobby job, this might be for you.  Some of the supervisors are very nice and work hard.  And some are rude and difficult.  Many have complained that some supervisors have tried to cut people's worked hours.  You have to fend for yourself in stating your production time, so you actually get paid for the hours you worked.

A typical shift is that you log on and make cold random calls to interview subjects for government and non-profit studies.  Sometimes the subjects are nice and sometimes they are abusive.  There is no enjoyable part to this job aside from the fact that it is flexible and home-based.

Do you want a job where during training the trainer makes fun of you and where you live? Tells you that the job is easy and there isn't enough employees to monitor all calls? Do you want to know hardly anything after training and once you start your job you are ignored by managers everytime you write them an email? Which is the only way to contact anyone.. an email. No messenger. Do you want to be told you can work mornings and then they change it to evenings with no notice? Do you want to feel like you are disposable and don't matter and are just a number? Do you want to quit just because ALL managers ignore you and you know this is an unorganized,  and nobody cares? Want to make hardly any money? THIS IS THE JOB FOR YOU! If you want to feel defeated and dread coming to work and like this is a dead end job and if managers don't care why should you? Then apply today! Worst remote company I have ever worked for and I'm a manager at one. Easiest way to lose good employees? Make them feel like they don't matter and you don't care! Good luck if you apply! Seriously... you will need it. 

The work is just as bad as you'd expect it to be in terms of the people you'll be in contact with on the phone, but the work environment and staff almost makes up for it. They're willing to help at any given opportunity and are there to give you instruction for each unique job they have put you on that day.

One of the best advantages of this job is the opportunity to create your own schedule and as long as you're at 20 hours, you can customize it pretty much however you want (with very minor restrictions based on work load). If you need some extra cash for a few months, this is a good way to do it; that is, if you can tolerate the work itself.

The work itself can be interesting though. You'll learn about all sorts of different cultures and aspects of life that are just different since you'll be speaking to random people across the US. It depends on the job you're placed on daily, of course, and that can vary from day to day.

I wouldn't expect a lot from a job like this, but if you can handle the stress of taking the heat from people on the phone, then you can handle this job.

The job is okay. Don't expect to make a living off of it though. Hours fluctuate incredibly. And there's been times when you're suddenly not working a week or more. The pay is low at $8 an hour but at least the hours are incredibly flexible. You make your own schedule. The job is incredibly easy but you can and will get in trouble for extremely mild mistakes and sometimes sent home early for it. But it's pretty hard to get fired unless you don't show up for work. The boss plays favorites and it's very obvious. She's nice and accomodating if you do decently at your job, but extremely harsh if you don't. The work itself involves calling people asking if they want to do surveys. It's incredibly dull work and days drag on. It's pretty uncomfortable asking such personal questions too like some of which will ask for their home address. I don't believe the surveys are scams but people on the phone often treat you as if you're a scammer and can be very aggressive. 

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