Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,056 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 9,056 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
1.0
Jun 8, 2017

Turf Wars

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is average for industry and company size

Cons

Constant turf wars between departments; Basel and USA, German, British , French, etc who stay in power and treat people by "ours" and not. Harsh treatment of colleagues, bureaucracy out of this world, incompetence.

1.0
Feb 20, 2017

Chemist

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cafeteria on site with hot food, nice parking lot, nice clean facility, good pay, good 401k, bravo points, yearly shutdown, nice people

Cons

Where do I start? Awful middle management, most supervisors are terrible. So much work you can't finish in 11 hours. If they see you are good they keep giving more to do. A lot of favourtism . Other people get hired at higher pay brackets but they have much less experience. Someone should look at this

1.0
Mar 16, 2016

If you like to suffer for nothing

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

One of the big pharma, so advantages linked to it (possibilities to move internally, even if not encouraged at all and that applying higher level than yours if discouraged or more)

Cons

Human Ressources not existing; delegation pushed to extreme with middle management maintaining a permanent fear atmosphere to reach objectives with denied means. Unability to use/allocate ressources according to needs (teams dying while other ones are doing almost nothing). Worlife balance not existing.

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