Narcissistic company culture attracting narcissistic managers! - Human Resources Business Unit Head Novartis Employee Review

3.0
Apr 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, reasonable career opportunities. Novartis is a good place to work if you are very ambitious and do not care about your health and private life. The Novartis Campus Project is gigantic. So, Novartis is definitely a great place for you if you love to work in fancy buildings designed by the worlds most famous architects!

Cons

It is not really performance that counts, but how you are able to sell yourself, how you do your self-marketing.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Pays pretty well in comparison to similar jobs in the market

Cons

Unstable schedule where you are often asked to come in overnight (1-2 am) regardless of if you have worked the previous day or are off. Basically feels like you're permanently on-call to conduct environmental monitoring. Training is slow. The Micro dept in general is currently understaffed. The job also involves lab work once you are done with your daily environmental monitoring tasks. The work never ceases and the Technicians as a whole has several responsibilities. Promotions seem to come very slowly here.

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