Novartis reviews

Novartis was the first company I worked at post grad. I’ve since worked at 3 other companies and now hold a senior director title. Reflecting back, this was not the best place to work. My manager was a large part to blame, but the company fostered a culture that condoned her personality type and behavior. She was a micromanager to the max, had no respect for peoples time , was inefficient, and a very poor leader. She also exhibited harassment behavior strangely towards male colleagues. She had been at Novartis for close to 20 years. Her behavior was not addressed once in my two years employed there. There was a constant trend of her direct reports quitting because of her. On my exit interview I wanted to give feedback but HR held the interview in the lobby of the building…who can feel comfortable speaking up? The clinical trial management organization felt like high school. It was all about optics and initiatives and who can be the “loudest” about their work. Overall the culture at Novartis was awful.