Vantaggi
Strong organization that is well-positioned in it's marketplace with the advent of bio-similar. Good benefits with alignment with parent company, Novartis. Friendly and hard-working mainline employees.
Svantaggi
IT department is undergoing massive change internally and has lost a lot of talent due to consolidation within Novartis. Seems to be managed as a matrix organization where consideration to business dynamics and what makes sense to make the organization most successful is often deemphasized or ignored due to bottom line cost savings and stock price. Often times felt that decisions were made in a vacuum vs. analyzing what actually created true lasting value. That said, they do have a mission to drive IT costs way down which will ultimately impact future in-house opportunities. Trend in 2014-2015 has been to outsouce most work.