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      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,038 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,038 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
      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Working at Novartis

      Scientist ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Overall a good place to work. Company's pipeline is reasonably strong

      Cons

      Informatics environment could definitely be improved

      1.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Work some place else, you will live longer.

      Senior principal programmer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free Starbucks coffee, good benefits.

      Cons

      There has been a decision to 'right' source the clinical programming. That translates into a forcing out of senior programming talent and the expectation that the remaining staff will train the over seas programmers. Behind this is the assumption that programmers are commodities which can be replaced with cheaper units at no loss. The majority of the management of the programming staff are ex-statisticians with the attitude that the only reason anyone would program is because they couldn't make the grade as a statistician. Since they had programmed to do homework assignments in school they believe that they understand the issues inherent in clinical programming and any attempts to inject professional concepts of reuseability and standards are unnecessary and a waste of resources. 'Just program and shut up'

      4.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      it's ok

      Researcher
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      the people are great and we are challenged

      Cons

      managers like micro managing and give little freedom

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