Great Company, but the Pharmaceutical Industry is declining... - Anonymous employee Novartis Employee Review

3.0
Jun 8, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company does great things for people - the company helps people live longer, healthier lives. The employees are professional, well-educated, and are competent.

Cons

The leadership listens to consultants too frequently - the consultants want to sell an "idea" that may or may not be feasible. The leaders need their own "fresh" ideas to sell up the chain of command, and so they buy into many of the worthless "ideas" of consultants and believe that young, inexperienced consultants actually have better "ideas" than proven, dedicated employees. The leaders need to wake up and FIRE all consultants, and FORMER consultants that are now employees. All of the consultants lack the dedication and operational expertise to actually take an "idea" and execute. The consultants have repeatedly sold leaders "ideas" that are quickly reversed by the new leaders of the organization who need to have thier own new, "fresh ideas". For example, reorganizing the company - how many times are we going to de-centralize, then centralize, then de-centralize again?

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