Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,048 total reviews)
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86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,048 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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2.0
Apr 26, 2023

Tolerable enough for a paycheck

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Pros

-401k + DCRP program is great -LTI program and new vesting schedule is very competitive -Focus on D&I

Cons

Constant reorganizations. Nearly every division has seen multiple rounds of layoffs in the last two years in addition to overall company restructuring. -Zero Job Security -Bonuses are down significantly compared to pre-covid. -Pay and Merit increases are minimal and a majority of associates are below median pay. Pay is non competitive. For those of you who do get brought in on competitive pay (NVS will do this), you can expect subsequent lower merit increases that will render pay non-competitive over several years. The company can afford large dividends, but not paying it's associates competitively. -Increasing micromanagement and administration burden. -Promotions are applied inconsistently and irrespective of performance. -No speak up culture. This is promoted, but anything but a "yes man" is severely damaging to your own career. -Ever changing sales plans. -BOX CHECKING. No real action, just tick the box.

1.0
Mar 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It was a great initiative with patient and specialty services, where they were building an end to end workflow to provide medication from manufacturer to patient. Most of my team members were hard-working and wonderful. My contract pay was great!

Cons

Nobody on the PSS program knew what they were doing. They were trying to follow, scaled agile framework, but the execution was extremely poor. Most workers ended up putting in overtime, the timelines were extremely unrealistic, work life balance was pretty much nonexistent. I not only left the company, but immediately sought out therapy to reduce my stress levels.

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