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

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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2.0
Feb 11, 2011
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Pros

Base salary is good. Health benefits and other benefits are top notch. Time off and some day-to-day flexibility is available. On going training and education is better than most.

Cons

1) Computers, software and other necessary office tools are old, unreliable, and not user-friendly. 2) Nearly all "objective" metrics used to measure one's performance are not within one's ability to impact - uncontrollables 3) First-line managers play favorites and participate in "forced-attrition" meaning if you are not a favorite, the FLM's will micromanage and harass someone to death in hopes of getting them to quit so the company can avoid paying severance or unemployment. 4) Commission pay plan and formula for setting the sales goals are extraordinarily complex, impossible to explain, appear to be completely subjective, and change nearly every quarter thus making it impossible to predict or plan ahead. 5) Most recently, quarterly sales goals were set so completely far from reach only 10% of sales reps achieved 100% in comparison to 50-60% of sales people who made it in every other quarter I've seen for the past 6 years!!! 6) Lastly, this entire industry is in a downward spiral and things are only getting worse.

3.0
Feb 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

This Company have a true committment with the people development, all bossses have a KPI on this, and this is taken very seriously. Opportunities are huge, sometimes there are no people to cover positions

Cons

The work style is very authoritarian, many directors are tyranic-style, with a few exceptions. SO you must have to have the patient of Gandhi, if you can´t manage acid and sarcastic feedback this is not for you. Thats the price to pay to ascend through the corporate ladder.

2.0
Feb 2, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits were great, some coworkers were okay. Cars were nice, vacation time was good, you are off from X-mas to the 1st

Cons

If you are a women you can move up in the organization faster. They are big on diversity which affects there decisions

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