Director - Anonymous employee Novartis Employee Review

3.0
Mar 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great forward thinking organization. Heavily driven by policies, procedures and process which is a good thing in a pharma co. Talent development, performance and key HR drivers are exceptionally managed and they do a great job of communicating vision, mission and goals with all employees at all levels.

Cons

Going through transformation/changes (like other co's) however they talk a big game about employees and how they are a primary resource, but it is all talk. There is still a lot of who knows who, connections get promoted and clicks still exist! The internal staffing process is not fair and succession planning does not always get rolled out effectively, non-biased way. Its who you know.

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