Management is a Mess, Otherwise OK - Cell Process Specialist Novartis Employee Review

2.0
Jan 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay especially on holidays, plenty of overtime opportunities. At least among same level co-workers there's a good environment.

Cons

Management is a mess for the most part, many managers across multiple departments don't have little if any familiarity of daily operations or processes, they will definitely judge your performance on this though, management will emphasize basic micromanagement things like scheduling and idle work but largely ignore operation issues or product quality concerns. Very poor communication as well, I have a medical condition that factored into my termination, I was given one warning on tardiness, gave an explanation to the issue and assured it wasn't a problem then fired without warning and cut off from all contact

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Pros

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Cons

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