Politics outweighs great ideas and people at MES in PLS - Manager MES Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Mar 8, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work life balance, overall policies on paper

Cons

Favoritism based on region and language is at extreme . if your Group Head is Telgu speaking or Bengali and you are the same. Chances of getting better assignments, promotions are higher. Based on the biases, promotions and high visibility projects to allotted to few while other talent is out-rightly ignored. Their assessemnt centres to promote people are all fixed, deserving candidates are ignored while people who are yes mans are preferred. All the values and behaviors are for associates only and are used to fire associates by group heads who do not fall in their path.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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