Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,040 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,040 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).

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1.0
Apr 25, 2017

Poor and Selfish leadership

Recommend
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Pros

Nothing except big brand name and a big building

Cons

Excessive politics and favoritism lack of adequate plans for an associate growth Although they do assessment of an associate before promotion, but that is very biased No value to your education or prior experience, they will fit you in any team without considering your skillset People who are only graduates BA or B.com are managing people who have done MBA from premier institutes as ISB and IIM. Just because they are older in system they become managers and then due to their insecurity they will not forward good feedback of their reportees. They introduced a new layer of leadership less than couple of years before, they are the most useless people in the organization and believe that they can increase the margins for their team by cutting associates increment and variable pays.

1.0
Dec 14, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Salary 401k Pension Healthcare benefits

Cons

Many leaders in ED or higher roles are just in it for themselves. I have personally experienced bullying, incivility, and yelling between leaders in meetings. I have had leaders treat me and people in our meetings as children, reprimanding them, embarrassing them. And I, along with others, have filed formal complaints about this behavior and it seems the only response that has been given is - we'll coach the offender. It also feels like the organization makes things much easier for men. There are very few women in leadership roles and the caliber of women in LT feels much higher than any of the men. I know of several EDs who lack the experience to head their technical departments, yet they were hired - with no one else being interviewed. The most recent re-org was intending to correct many of these culture issues but little was done to put leaders in place who are empathetic, supportive, and lead to develop their teams. Unless you're getting a life-changing amount of money and you're planning on staying here only 12-18 my months - DON'T JOIN THIS ORGANIZATION

1.0
Aug 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Novartis is a good company in general - just don’t start working in Procurement in NGSC Prague. Pluses: home offices, vacation days, sick days, salary, other benefits (multi sport card, workshops, trainings...).

Cons

Bad senior management in procurement (very bossy, not really experienced, presentations and image are everything, knowledge itself it is not really important, they are picking their favourites and those people are everything, visibility is the most important thing). Also they lie to your face all the time. They are extremely hypocritical (senior management and some team leads in procurement) and they don’t seem to realize that they should change their dictators leadership methods and alao hire more people for some teams. It is very toxic work environment.

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