Novartis as an employer?

Discussion in 'Novartis' started by Anonymous, May 17, 2006 at 6:26 PM.

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  1. Anonymous

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    Our beef jerkey is nearly rectum free !
     

  2. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    In Ramonavia we are very please to eat rectum of killed animal as delicacy. Eyeballs also too. We are small country in east of Europe and we come to us of a for job and Novartis hire us for work as we work hard and sleep not.
     
  3. Anonymous

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    I've more good people here than "bad.". Most of my managers have been terrific. One did turn out to be a cold-blooded hypocrite while another is a complete bully, liar, and manipulative mean moron. It's a crapshoot, but the warm fuzzies are gone. #s rule. You could be viewed as a rock star in december than as a loser, wind-sucking problem in january. Just like any other company.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    Novartis is a very poor company to work for. Extremely poor management and discriminates against men and older employees. This is the worst pharmaceutical company that I
    have ever worked for! If you ever get a chance to work for Merck you had better take it! They are the best managed by far and they treat their employees fairly and with respect.
     
  5. Anonymous

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    Novartis is a machine, an F'n machine. It'll cut you without a second thought if business requires it. It's your direct manager that makes or breaks it for you in this company and any other Pharma.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    We are all just tributes for President Snow aka. JJ Happy Hunger Games!!!
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Novartis has had its share of missteps over the years but overall I've found it a good company to work for. Read any financial assessment of Novartis and it's always in the top 3 pharma companies. Sales people who bitch about getting let go from an at large sales position apparently don't understand what their career choice means. Basically you can leave at any time and work for any company you'd like, including the competition, in return the company can get rid of you at any time for any reason.

    This downsizing was absolutely necessary to keep Novartis' profitability where it needs to be to attract investors and continue to deliver novel agents to the market. With a downsizing of this size good people as well as dead weight are going to be let go. Anyone who wasn't prepared for either eventuality was living with their head in the sand.

    The good reps will still land on their feet. The lazy dead weight will bitch, try to sue and eventually wind up on the ever expanding rolls of non-producers that the Obama Administration loves to cater to.

    Good luck to the producers.
     
  8. Anonymous

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    For the most part this poster is not out of line with my thinking either - nor the one above it (NVS is a machine). It is a corporation. It has it's faults. It has it's good points - I don't think it's entirely different than other Pharmaceutical houses. It paid well - you can work here or not...that is your decision if you're offered a job.

    BUT - when there is a downsizing it isn't always the lazy that are let go, and it isn't always the good that get to stay. I've seen NVS keep absolutely worthless managers time after time (Been here over 30 years and worked for at least 16 managers during my career) and the same with goof-off, lazy reps that are the beneficiaries of their territory's dynamics. I've seen outstanding Reps let go - seriously good Reps - the kind that are good to the company, good for the industry let go.

    NVS is a machine and the decisions to keep or let go are clearly arbitrary in a vast number of cases. Throw the dice - you might stay. Your chances are better if you're manager has scored you with good Values and Behaviors and your sales have stayed above the 50% line.
     
  9. Anonymous

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    If being laid off is causing you to "loose" your mind, how about allocating a couple of hours a day to work on your spelling Cochise?? It is lose not loose...

    Corporate America does suck though...it is the worse...If Obama wins again, I think Costa Rica might be where I am headed...

    it is just awful in this country now...
     
  10. Anonymous

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    Merck? Are you serious? Go look on their site. Merck is a company run by lawyers that will make things up on reps to PIP them out of their job. The older you get the worse it is. Merck is no longer one of America's Most Admired Companies for a reason. In the 90's I agree, they were the company to work for but no longer.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    I have worked for both companies within the last 6 years and Merck is by far the best company. Novartis takes pride in letting people go.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    I concur. Worked for both Merck and Novartis. Merck is by far the better company, as an employee. Novartis culture is a culture that encourages lying, and cheating. No one is accountable for their work. They only do work when they are asked repeatedly or it is escalated to management. Micromanagement is rampant. Many people disappear on sick leave. I'm not surprised at the many warnings from the FDA. Merck is the opposite in these respects.
     
  13. Anonymous

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    Wow...Novartis must be a pretty big turd if Merck is better...

    Merck is the devil you know?? (Vioxx, Gardasil)

    FU MERCK!!
     
  14. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Coming into the Novartis fold as an Alcon employee has been a real eye-opener. Night and day the way we used to be managed. I am not in Sales, but if even half of the horror stories posted here are true, it looks like the the Novartis way is craptastic through and through.
     
  15. anonymous

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    Novartis management in NJ is over-demanding and unfair to employees. When one realizes he/she been used they immediately turn hostile and become nasty. One manager posted negative performance review and said on the meeting: "I dont care if you go and kill yourself, nothing will change". In these exact words. After a year working twelve hour a day at higher position than paid for . No promotion, no increase, nothing. It looks like management is doing best to make people quit after two years so they never qualify for Novartis retirement plan. This is the worst company to work for.
     
  16. anonymous

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    Novartis retirement plan: in Basel the management lobbied employees long & hard to get the retirement plan changed, telling us how wonderful the new plan was and that the old plan was a danger to the survival of Novartis.....and of course one the plan was officially changed to what turns out is a worse one, managers stayed on the old one now called "Manager pension plan"
     
  17. anonymous

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    Worked at Novartis for 15 years...horrible culture but no different than any other large Corp. Cutthroat environment. Bad management. horrible HR. Work hard to learn and to improve your selves and careers.