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      Novartis

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      Novartis reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,041 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      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 9,041 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
      4.0
      Apr 13, 2011

      Very unstable due to product patents and very unorganized with the new Psychiatry Division

      Senior sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great Benefits, Reputable Company, Equal Opportunity, Very Good Salary, flexible schedule Novartis is very ethical when doing business and the sales team management is very good at relaying information to the sales force.

      Cons

      Big Pharma and very unstable right now. Layoffs every year with no criteria so you don't know who or when and if you will be layed off at any given time. They are not good at sending information down to representative level.

      2.0
      Apr 7, 2011

      Overall, gathered valuable experience on how not to act as a professional.

      Senior sales specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      decent pay; there are fantastic managers working here but they are far, few and in b/w; company car; good benefits; can't think of anything else

      Cons

      upper management was incompetent, poor communication b/w divisions, created an atmosphere of intense (negative) competition b/w reps in offices and accounts, do not work for the Giegy division

      2.0
      Apr 3, 2011

      Roller coaster ride with steep decline last 5 years. Deceptive management decisions, unrealistic compensation goals.

      Pharmacy field sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits! Good base salary! Recognition and rewards! Diversity! Ethical!

      Cons

      Pipeline is inconsistent. Poor management decisions in planning and launch of new medications. Poor decisions in planning national field territory sales coverage.Deceptive communications from management. They claim transparency but made many decisions behind the scenes and did not share it with the field and was not willing to discuss it after it was implemented. They rushed to expand and hire new sales employees to sell a new drug rather than use the talented pool of current field sales to fill positions. The drug has failed badly so they decided to restructure the division and displace many good productive highly compensated employees to make up for the lost profits and revenue. Then hire some back at reduced salary and larger territory. I hear more layoffs to come.

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