The role was to be a 6 month contract position through an agency. The interview with ABBVIE was a group phone call with three interviewers (occured during 2020 Covid pandemic).
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Typical questions:
Describe a situation when you had to deal with a conflict between team members
Give an example of a cross functional project and your role.
They asked STAR style questions, related to experience, education & background. Competency based questions & situational questions such as “show us a time where you…”
Interview lasted an hour and was with the line manager and senior manager
I applied online. I interviewed at AbbVie (Ludwigshafen am Rhein) in Jun 2025
Interview
Communication with HR is not sufficient. Without a HR interview, I have directly met with the departmant head and then met with the whole team. Also hard to follow up on their internal process as there was no information flow from HR
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Could you share a challenging experience you have faced so far?
The interview process was a set of 5 interviews starting with a recruiter call and moving up through various levels of management. This was a remote position so all were virtual. The people were very nice but the process took over a month to get through. The position was closed without hiring anyone in the end.
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Walk through my usual process for starting a new project.
Project Manager applicants have rated the interview process at AbbVie with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Project Manager roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AbbVie overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at AbbVie as a Project Manager according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 17%
One on one interview: 15%
Drug test: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 13%
Skills test: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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