Sandoz reviews

Work life balance- plan on working lots of overtime. Management- complete chaos! you have 10 different people giving you direction, and no one is in sync. Culture- This facility use to be an excellent place to work, but within the last 5 years it has really gone down hill!! Directors being demoted to Associate Director, due to lack of performance (twice). If anyone else was under performing, they would be FIRED! HR- covers for the upper Management, does nothing to help the common folk!

IT department is undergoing massive change internally and has lost a lot of talent due to consolidation within Novartis. Seems to be managed as a matrix organization where consideration to business dynamics and what makes sense to make the organization most successful is often deemphasized or ignored due to bottom line cost savings and stock price. Often times felt that decisions were made in a vacuum vs. analyzing what actually created true lasting value. That said, they do have a mission to drive IT costs way down which will ultimately impact future in-house opportunities. Trend in 2014-2015 has been to outsouce most work.