Pros
Benefits, vacations, home office, salary above average
Cons
Novartis is the classical company which has moved from expensive country to search for cheap labor, they are not willing to invest in their people and do not care about personal development a lot as long as the work is done. The saving policy went so far that even cleaning services in the facilities were cancelled during the daytime. The work load is very high but overtime is not paid. People quite usually are expected to do overtime voluntary and are sometimes put into uncomfortable situations due to refusing free overtime work. It’s quite hard to be promoted or have a good personal development if you don’t know “the right people”. All promotions have been done behind close doors and not giving opportunity for everyone to try. Management is very poor as well. I have personally asked my manager for additional tasks to learn some new processes or tools, none of which were taken into consideration and instead I was told to focus on primary tasks workload which I was doing ever since I joined the company. The position descriptions are not quite matching with the real work that you will have to do. They know how to sell position but do not tell the real work nature. The company has quite toxic working environment. There is no place for recognition. A lot of management decisions are being done according to prejudices, based on some list of “favorite people”; teams are full of gossips which does not make the environment so friendly.