Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,047 total reviews)
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Vas Narasimhan

86% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,047 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
1.0
Jan 12, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good campus (in Basel), good place to procrastinate and do bare minimum and still draw a salary!

Cons

Extremely political, toxic management, employees/teams pitted against one another, end year review is a joke (popularity contest), extremely high attrition rates in most teams

2.0
Dec 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and benefits are industry average .. good ground to network and best of class in some areas

Cons

Glass ceiling and career path discussed with your manager is just a paper Sr mgmt is bunch of bullies (alpha dogs) and that is a reflection of the rest of the food chain .. long working hours and no understanding of work life balance very negative culture .. and focused on CHF, and more CHFand more $$$$$ .. job cuts announced to the public if it happens in the US .. other places are done quietly they have a marketing term for job cuts, they call it increasing novartis productivity ... they are moving the jobs to INDIA .. that is all. They will bring it back in 2015 when they realize that such model will not work.

1.0
Jun 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work itself is rewarding

Cons

The company has become a nightmare. Constant management changes, redundancies and no one actually knows what they’re supposed to be doing. So much blame thrown around and gaslighting from upper management. It used to be a company full of bright motivated individuals but upper management has done everything it can to demotivate people and suck any joy from the work. The people who work here want to help people but when we are told that we only focus on profitable diseases to line shareholders pockets, it’s a miserable environment to work in.

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