Chemist - Chemist Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cafeteria on site with hot food, nice parking lot, nice clean facility, good pay, good 401k, bravo points, yearly shutdown, nice people

Cons

Where do I start? Awful middle management, most supervisors are terrible. So much work you can't finish in 11 hours. If they see you are good they keep giving more to do. A lot of favourtism . Other people get hired at higher pay brackets but they have much less experience. Someone should look at this

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Cons

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