2.0
Aug 8, 2014
Faulty approach to leadership growth
Current employee, more than 10 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Good benefits. It helps knowing you're improving customers health. Most low level workers are trying.
Cons
You will not get promoted inside, unless you are willing to move around the world. Much better to be someone hired from the outside than have a chance of promotion as existing employee. Divided management culture... Lots of old school managers just trying to hang on until retirement. But also many new managers (from outside or moved from other Novartis divisions) who don't understand what made Alcon so successful and so trusted. They are not well positioned to maintain leadership in vision care, so expect more layoffs as Novartis just looks at headcount.
