Toxic Work Environment in Procurement - Tactical Buyer Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Aug 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Novartis is a good company in general - just don’t start working in Procurement in NGSC Prague. Pluses: home offices, vacation days, sick days, salary, other benefits (multi sport card, workshops, trainings...).

Cons

Bad senior management in procurement (very bossy, not really experienced, presentations and image are everything, knowledge itself it is not really important, they are picking their favourites and those people are everything, visibility is the most important thing). Also they lie to your face all the time. They are extremely hypocritical (senior management and some team leads in procurement) and they don’t seem to realize that they should change their dictators leadership methods and alao hire more people for some teams. It is very toxic work environment.

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Cons

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