Been hearing a lot of negative feedback about Axtria.
Can someone also share what exactly is bad? For ex. If micro-managing is a problem, maybe the ops team exactly requires that with people from 1-5 yrs of experience. Or if policies are bad, what exactly is bad?
No ranting, just constructive feedback/comments which can be put forward/used in a broader forum by Axtrians sometime in the future. Axtria Inc.
Let me try to provide some constructive feedback:
1) The gang of old timers is so powerful , that hard to break it. They gossip and decide who gets to do what in team esp DS
2) Most of DS director and plus population is from CE background. They know nothing about data and analytics. They prefer to promote junior folks who started their career here rather than have laterals Who would Have different way of working or point of say.
3) Most folks in DS ( so called leadership) will complain that they don’t get pharma talent. In reality when hey do get it, they prefer not to have them in team- cause they want non pharma folks from. Outside and continue to remain indispensable.
4) HR hardly has any power. They are tools in hands of DS leadership and can do nothing on their own
5) DS gang will constantly complain that new folks are unable to fit in this culture . But no one will question their role in making new folks adjust. If they did, all accountability wil fall in place.
6) Best accounts are already divided among the older ones. As a manager, you will get very limited responsibility .
7) There is general feel good factor only with lateral folks who come from more struggling monetary background, slightly poor English and more rustic style. That makes leadership accept them more quickly and feel at home
8) Onshore superiority is too high. one can never talk about them or raise issues; it’s not even heard
9) Some very toxic people exist in DS- old timers. But no feedback is provided. They come drunk, yap, gossip and do nothing .
10) Make rules employee friendly. End of day, ppl have to feel good working in company. Crushing them and making them feel exploited is bad for mental health. Enjoying work and liberty at work is precious. Having a fun day once in month with some sweets in canteen is not exactly liberating. prople like Anubhuti need to be kept under check/ when you give more power to such ppl, you harm the culture and sanity of ppl.
Completely agree. Everything you said is on point. Specially about the leaders who come drunk to office. No action is being taken against them and rather they are just being promoted every year.
So relatably good! Point 3 is bang on. Toxicity and DS and leadership is all mingled into one.
They want toxic people who can gossip and stay around esp in laterals.
When I joined Axtria and read all these reviews , I was unable to understand where is al this coming from . But soon in few months realised the barbaric attitude of folks .
Hmmm, hearing you all. Interesting. Are open townhalls or skip level meetings not a thing in Axtria?
There are skip level meetings but what if the sr manager taking the skip meeting is the issue. I feel it’s not the absence of townhalls or skip meeting is the issue, rather not taking the points discussed during these meeting is the biggest problem and not providing a conducive space for the employee to express the issues faced specifically ones which have an impact on their performance is also an issue that I feel Axtria currently has.
Even you do follow the code of conduct and raise concerns, you’ll still be targeted. It’s like you’re under a leadership which supports dictatorship although can only do so through being democratic. So any issue you raise against the organisation or the leaders would be heard on but you’ll have a target mark on your back once you finish the discussion
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Plz join, and then you will know yourself and join the negative comments club
This senior consultant looking for constructive criticism. Did this he or she get answer. And what was he/ she going to do with this criticism and answers if I may ask ?????
Don't join. No work life balance. Lots of politics.
I’ll try my best to provide a constructive feedback although I’m not very sure if it’s possible to be constructive.
The major issues that I noticed were, specifically in DS:
1. Forecasters are being hired in large numbers eventhough there are no projects for forecasting, this leads the newly hired person to be put on bench or sent to teams where the employee’s skills are not used properly.
2. Many of the managers, sr managers , ADs and directors are very political in a wrong way and majorly lack technical and subject matter expertise yet try to push down people who do have skills.
3. Hr doesn’t have any power and is controlled by a selected number of people. There is no grievance addresal putting employees on a tough spot leading to increased unwanted stress. For example I know someone who was hospitalised because of the bullying and mental harassment by the senior manager, managers and director and when he raised the issue with HR he was fired and the sr manager was promoted to AD. And this AD is one of the worst leaders with the highest attrition rate in his team in DS. So the HR and the company supports toxic leaders who only know how to harass people.
4. Growth wise, the company doesn’t have enough challenging projects to work on and therefore would
Make you learn skills which can’t be used anywhere.
5. Work life balance is completely based on the team you are in. And probably will have to work atleast 14-16 hours even if you don’t have any projects.
6. Micromanagement is to the level that in most cases either your manager will call you on your personal number as soon as your team shows away or your manager might tell your colleagues to keep an eye on you and report everything .
Imagine they have issues if one tailgates. They have issues if one doesn’t finish 12 days. They have issues if someone tries to finish sick leave quota towards end of year. Butttt coming drunk to work is definitely ok and acceptable ! Cause alcohol is allowed and is in rule book of Axtria.
Which team is this drunk AD from ? GSK or Novartis?
Gilead
No issues . Join it