Pros
For years Novant offered me challenges, great opportunities, superior leadership, and motivated coworkers. They have competitive pay per market and great benefits. You actually feel like you make a difference helping people here.
Cons
I actually really enjoyed my career at Novant but unfortunantly my last couple years left such a bad taste in my mouth. I switched departments and one of my coworkers was a known troublemaker. I brought positivity and encouragement to all of our interactions but their negativity and lone wolf attitude wouldn't budge. This came to a spearhead months later after the entire team, project managers, and other external teams were all voicing strong and repeated concerns to management about this one coworker's work ethic and refusal to work with others. Under the support of our director, our manager wrote up the entire team instead of addressing the root issue. Which we all fought. Shortly after this our manager and director engaged in power struggles and each openly and unprofessionally talking about each other to coworkers on the floor. At this point I and a number of others began to loss faith and trust in our leadership. Aside from the incident above there were other issues as well mostly with our leaders. Both manager and director would get you alone and try to dig negative opinions out of you about other people then spread it around the office. I had heard this as a rumor, but was seriously depressed when I observed this behavior first hand. I voiced concerns to both manager and director when ever I could that I was underutilized and I was eager to take on more responsibility. They never took me up on this so growing bored and still frustrated with everything else, I began to look for roles internally. I wanted to stay with Novant but every job you apply to sends an email to your one up. I've never had a problem with this under other managers but in this department others and I were heavily scrutinized for wanting to leave, again by both manager and director who were still fighting among themselves. After months of applying for internal roles and never hearing anything, I applied externally and immediately found a role at one of Novant's competitors. On my exit I tried to voice concerns to HR in an exit interview and was told by them that this was no longer offered. So unfortunately the struggles of this department that reach far and wide across Novant are still continuing and likey will for some time as at least two leaders are part of the problem.
