Big corporation with structural abusive leadership - Project Manager Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Oct 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good peers and good company benefits

Cons

Blue culture is just a name that gets stepped over every time an employee has been bullied by management. There is no system of bottom-up feedback that ensures the company culture is respected. In Dublin, I got to witness how nearly 20 colleagues quit/were let go (before they could talk to HR) with no follow-up from Novartis of such a high turnover of the staff in only one year for that team. I witnessed groups filed complaints to specific managers and how the same complaints were about to happen from different locations for the same managers and how those were silenced across. I saw how as soon as an employee had had enough and was about to talk, managers would quickly portrait him/her in reports with poor performance (that wasn´t true) so as soon as the case got high enough the employee´s version was discredited. I witnessed in meetings management saying "we will hire in India because they are cheap" in front of Indian colleagues who deserved much more than that type of treatment.

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