Novartis reviews

This company turned out to be a huge disappointment. For me it went a little bit like this: 1. Recruitment process - you receive an email with instructions how to answer questions in line with the ridiculous company requirements and some kind of made up ideology. Forget about being yourself, follow the rules as you jump through 3 rounds of interviews. 2. First days in the company - you find out that the department you just joined is being handed over to an outsourcing company and your newly accuired postion at Novartis will soon disappear. 3. First weeks in the company - you realize that there are no training materials available to help you as a newcomer and you struggle to get any iformation + you realize that the place is really messy and unkept, kitchens are overflowing with dirty dishes, people are scared of using dishwashers. Not to mention all the broken equipement, misspelled names, mafunctioning software. 4. Few months into your new role - you are informed that you are being sold to the outsourcing company, if you don't want to you can quit or look for an internal position, which brings us back to point 1. In this case the recruitment process is either non-existent as your applications are being ignored or you spend a lot of time in interviews that bring 0 results. I have nothing to say about senior management/ CEO and all of the bosses as they are not a part of employees lives in any way. There is no such thing as team spirit/ company spirit, everybdy seems distant and disconnected from one another

At the beginning they hired senior people, that later found out to be at same level (salary and responsibilities) of people with no working experience in procurement. Serve the business for the task that they don t want to do in country. So new strategy is to pay the same but to hired people with no experience or background so they will not complain and they will be happy to do administrative task ( upload pdf, organize meetings, copy paste in contract..) with a better salary and a lot of home office. At the end no possibility to learn and to growth if you want a REAL experience in procurement, in your cv you will be even Category Manager but you will not be ready later in your career to do this job in a real procurement department in another company!! Management not well educated and with no skills to lead so many people, unclear careers opportunities, and no meritocracy.