Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,041 total reviews)
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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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5.0
Jun 8, 2010

Great place to work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Family friendly, full of smart people that are competent in what they do. Leadership makes decent decisions for the most part.

Cons

A little bit of a country club culture.

4.0
May 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The resources behind the postdoc project make it attractive to do a postdoc at Novartis. In addition, the scale of experiments is large. Instead of thinking about a single protein family member, we are authorized to go after the entire family.

Cons

The biggest down side to being a postdoc in industry - at least at Novartis - is feeling isolated. The postdocs do not work on pipeline projects, which is good so that our work can be published, but every one around is working on a pipeline project, with tangential relationship to the postdoc project. Most labs only have 1 postdoc, so it is easy to feel isolated.

3.0
May 18, 2010

good company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

work and life balance, good work place

Cons

promotion is not fair. a lot of talent leave because of this reason.

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