Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,041 total reviews)
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Vas Narasimhan

86% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,041 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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9K reviews
2.0
Mar 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Smart, dedicated colleagues - Competitive compensation and benefits - Purpose-driven work with meaningful impact

Cons

- Ineffective leadership that was not meaningfully addressed - Unrealistic expectations treated as business as usual - Constant urgency driven by poor prioritization and planning - Little regard for sustainable work-life balance - High-pressure environment that leads to burnout

3.0
Mar 19, 2026

Cloudy with a chance of rain

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Dedicated and tireless individual contributors, 2. Exciting development projects, 3. Opportunities for inspiring and challenging work that may benefit patients

Cons

1. Significant loss of talent due to restructuring and off-shoring to cheaper locales, 2. Over-zealous interest of senior leadership in AI (structurally not capable of (nor built to) contextualize output), 3. Leadership approach to controlling for patent cliff is "leaning" organization to a perilously close inability to function and pinching its workforce to stabilize the stock price.

5.0
Mar 19, 2026

Great company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The team is incredible and the benefits are great

Cons

So far I don’t have any complaints

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