Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,039 total reviews)
avatar

Vas Narasimhan

86% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,039 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Novartis employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.5 stars).

Reviews by job title

9K reviews
1.0
Oct 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good peers and good company benefits

Cons

Blue culture is just a name that gets stepped over every time an employee has been bullied by management. There is no system of bottom-up feedback that ensures the company culture is respected. In Dublin, I got to witness how nearly 20 colleagues quit/were let go (before they could talk to HR) with no follow-up from Novartis of such a high turnover of the staff in only one year for that team. I witnessed groups filed complaints to specific managers and how the same complaints were about to happen from different locations for the same managers and how those were silenced across. I saw how as soon as an employee had had enough and was about to talk, managers would quickly portrait him/her in reports with poor performance (that wasn´t true) so as soon as the case got high enough the employee´s version was discredited. I witnessed in meetings management saying "we will hire in India because they are cheap" in front of Indian colleagues who deserved much more than that type of treatment.

1.0
May 10, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good company to work with if you land with right set of people

Cons

No ethics, Novartis policies says no compromise on values and behavior yet they hire people who were expelled from previous organization due to sexual harassment charges. Due to excessive favoritism people with tainted records are also hired in an accelerated process. Will not give promotions to deserving people due to politics while will hire people from outside having half the average experience of inside associates

avatar
Novartis Response
6y
Thank you for your comment. We are sorry to hear of your experience and take all comments of abuse, bullying, discrimination or harassment seriously and as such have passed this information to the Novartis SpeakUp Office (formerly the Business Practices Office (BPO)). We recommend you also contact our SpeakUp Office directly via http://www.speakupnovartis.ethicspoint.com/ if you have any additional information to share. Novartis strives to create a safe and fair environment for all its associates and thank you in advance for sharing any additional information with us.
4.0
Sep 3, 2017

Bengali Company ( NOT an MNC)

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance GH TL and local leadership are not bothered about work

Cons

It's a Bengali culture in US Analytics team, you need to Bengali to get some advantage. Highly favorism for regional people

Viewing 31 - 33 of 9,039 Reviews

Glassdoor has 12,621 Novartis reviews submitted anonymously by Novartis employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Novartis is right for you.