Great until the unexpected layoff - Anonymous employee Novartis Employee Review

4.0
11 May 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great compenstaion and management would enable you to run your own business, so they said. Company had great benefits and helped people who wanted to advance.

Cons

You never knew what was going on in the corporate mindset. Field associates were always the last to know. Was laid off 1 month after CEO publicly said there were no findings of layoffs in the future. WOW-

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Pros

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Cons

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