Novartis reviews

- no clear structure and definition of responsibilities - communication and collaboration don't exist at all - people getting promoved over the night and put in leading positions without having the necessary experience or skills - everybody thinks they are more important than the rest - they like to invest a lot of money in things that don't really make any sense - no really chances or a personnel development since there is nobody there capable of guiding you or helping you puttin together a proper development plan for yourself

We are asked to do amazing data science and machine learning, but IT refuses to install anything modern like tensorflow, keras, xgboost and so on the severs. "Hey, just work on your 'fantastic' 8 GB dual core laptop that barely functions due to all the surveillance programs on it." Lots of talk and back-slapping, but management does not actually help associates get the roadblocks to doing actual work out of the way, then they bemoan a lack of a start-up mentality. If I were in a start up, at least I would have the tools to do my job without endless fights with an incompetent IT organization. There's also the fantastic conference meetings using Skype and VMR that are a constant nightmare. **IF** you manage to connect, you will randomly be unable to speak or unable to share your screen or be randomly disconnected or … It's amazing, free Skype on my personal phone is better than what we have in the shiny headquarters.