Pros
Great benefits and generous salaries. Beautiful campus, access to fitness center, discount store, credit union, campus doctor. Good communication from executives on general expectations for employees. Good collaboration among departments.
Cons
Since the Novartis acquisition there has been low employee morale as there has been nonstop change. It has become much too common for talented people to get laid off and many current employees live in fear of it. They're thinning out the employees in favor of contracted temps who unfortunately are treated like outsiders. Alcon has great potential to be a great employee-focused company (like it once was before the merger apparently) but it is not there now because management doesn't see the benefits. They talk about focusing on talent development, but its just that... talk. Stress levels are very high due to the irrational focus on growth, growth and only growth.