Morris Plains is a mess - Anonymous employee Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Dec 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Was given much room to grow and develop * Able to learn a lot * Good Benefits * Really good people

Cons

* No work-life balance - worked through holidays, weekends, etc which is fine if you're compensated appropriately. No one wants to non stop work crazy hours without breaks or time off. There is no recognition of people who literally kill themselves for this site, and it's not worth it. Everything is non stop urgent, and none of the systemic issues are fixed. * Management needs to be fixed. There are a lot of people there that don't know what they're doing and it's across multiple groups, and it affects the motivation of everyone. * Look at the turnover of longer working employees, most are leaving because the environment was literally killing us. People who actually do work there get abused, and people who don't do anything just coast there forever. * People who are harassing others are just left there forever, and HR/BPO doesn't adequately address the issues. * They get away with paying under market value and then all of a sudden you get a ~compensation adjustment.~ * Morris Plains is not sustainable right now

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