Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,037 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 9,037 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
Jul 2, 2008

Think before u sign

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation, experience & learning, reference

Cons

The strategy is changing all the time, a lot of pressure on the associates, downsizing the number of associates all the time impacts quality of work and satisfaction of the associates. Really poor top management in Germany.

2.0
Jul 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Novartis offers very good pay and benefits and there is excellent scope to make international moves inside the company.

Cons

There is a very high turnover of people in middle to senior management roles, with constant restructuring/reorganisation and reinvention of processes. This generates lots of change but without clear direction. Novartis is also very top-down driven, and there is a low level of trust from management and between colleagues. Perceived poor performance is usually quickly followed by a change in personnel, although this is often not done objectively. So if you want to build a long career in Novartis you need to stay nimble and avoid being closely associated with anything that might turn out badly.

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