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Having never ranked in the history of our Best Places to Work in Industry survey, Sandoz debuts at number four on the Top Large Companies list in 2007. The company's recent changes in how their scientists are involved in the entire process of generic drug discovery and development may have helped Sandoz creep out from under the arm of their parent company, Novartis. In addition, the company isn't burdened by a looming hierarchy, a feature of other larger global industry leaders.
"In our structure of management there are not a lot of levels; we see everybody," says Allen Sicley, a research supervisor at Sandoz's North Carolina unit, who has been at the company for more than five years. "There's a lot of collaboration between the lower levels and upper management." This element, he adds, can be really surprising for young scientists who join the company and expect ...
