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      Novartis

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      Novartis reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,060 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,060 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 Pharmaceutique et biotechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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      9K reviews
      3.0
      Oct 13, 2013

      Very serious and uptight. Good science, big egos.

      Scientist i
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Salary is good. Resources are good. Bright minds for discussing ideas.

      Cons

      Can be slow to change. Management is extremely top down, and has too many layers. Roles are very rigid, difficult to get exposure to areas outside of individual specialty.

      1.0
      Oct 3, 2013

      Stay away from this place...not worth it. Managers do NOT give a sh!t about people.

      Global clinical program head
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      None. Not one. Management is too busy giving employees the impression they really care about work/life balance then they tell people they cant work more then 1 day a week at home. Total BS. Nobody is friendly their. People walk around with grins on their faces. All the foreign people are not americanized and you cant even understand what they are saying half the time. They are hired because they get paid half of what americans would have to get paid. This is reflected in the type of people you have to work with on projects. I am talking about most Asians that are not US citizens.

      Cons

      Terrible disjointed end of year review process that does not get done correclty and serve its purpose. Management often admits they need to work on a lot of internal issues. So why havnt they changed things?? They bust your b@ll$ and then will screw you in the end. The average employee does not want to account for their responsibilities and this screws up many project timelines and then people will play the blame game and point fingers and you will get a bad review - if people even submit a review you requested of them - most people don't bother because nobody gets glamorous reviews there. Expect to be average in your review as an employee and just go thru the motions of working there and following the same procesess year after year until you are fed up with the place and quit or get laid off. This is the last place in NJ anyone should want to work. Stay away from it.

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