Novartis reviews

Limited career growth, toxic work environment, no sense of team at all, never ending bureaucracy, BPO atmosphere (everything focuses around tickets and language specifics, being a procurement professional is secondary), entry-level boring level of work The most insidious aspect of it all is that no one even looks like they care. There a few smiling "yes men", but deep down we all know no one cares at all about anything happening there and the engagement is just miserable. Management even knows, but they also don't really care, which is why nothing changes. When you give people work that honestly needs to be automated and does not challenge you intellectually at all, why should you care for anything except your paycheck?

Reorganization is omni-permanent for the last 5 years, however only a portion of associates embrace it, whereas the majority that is used to almost 20 years without being challenged is resisting to it. Incrementally, there is a leaping gap between values promoted by the CEO (employees first, bottom-up leadership, « unbossing »), and the way the reorganization is effectively executed, whereby the focus is on reducing the headcount number especially in costly countries. The rapid offshoring of non-Senior Management positons to Eastern Europe, South Asia or Central America does not allow for a proper knowledge transfer, creating serious disruptions in daily operations and causing extra work and frustration for those whose position are left. Plus the newly created Centers of Excellence quickly grow into bulky entities that lose efficiency and increase in bureaucracy, eventually undermining the ultimate benefits they were anticipated to bring. Under this pressure the atmosphere becomes unfavorable for employees, and a large portion focuses on deliver the strict minimum, awaiting for right opportunities outside and sometimes hoping to fall under the highly interesting social plan.