Does Novartis pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Novartis employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Novartis. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Novartis?

80% of Novartis employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Novartis 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Novartis?

Manager (269) , Associate Director (206) , Analyst (198) , Director (185) , Senior Analyst (159) , Intern (144) , Project Manager (139) , Sales Representative (131) , Medical Representative (92) , Business Analyst (90) , Internship (71) , Medical Science Liaison (MSL) (69) , Senior Manager (64) , Scientist (58) , Data Scientist (57)

What are the pros of working at Novartis according to real employee reviews?

"The work life balance is good and a company to look out for in later career" ((in 985 reviews)); "Great Culture Awesome long lasting connections Learned lots while I was there having no Pharma background" ((in 791 reviews)); "Benefits are good and scientists are motivated and talented." ((in 689 reviews)); "great people (managed not so well) and it was used to be much more scientific." ((in 429 reviews)); "Good Salary and Bonus." ((in 379 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Novartis according to real employee reviews?

"poor management and handling of issues raised" ((in 263 reviews)); "If we are in good managers team... It's the best place to work... Else it's a hell...." ((in 144 reviews)); "Poor leadership that is distant from ground reality due to prolonged TfG/restructuring and it's hangover." ((in 108 reviews)); "Frequent reorganizations and layoffs create uncertainty." ((in 86 reviews)); "communicative middle and upper management that displays hubris." ((in 43 reviews))

What are employees saying about Novartis layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Novartis layoffs and their outlook for job security at Novartis in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Novartis locations?

Rueil-Malmaison , Huningue , Paris , Les Ulis , Lyon , Suisse , Saint-Étienne , Troyes , Pau , Chatou , Montpellier , Givors , Labège , Dijon

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Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,056 total reviews)

Vas Narasimhan

86% approve of CEO

69% 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 9,056 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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Reviews by job title

9K reviews

1.0

Feb 20, 2017

Chemist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Cafeteria on site with hot food, nice parking lot, nice clean facility, good pay, good 401k, bravo points, yearly shutdown, nice people

Cons

Where do I start? Awful middle management, most supervisors are terrible. So much work you can't finish in 11 hours. If they see you are good they keep giving more to do. A lot of favourtism . Other people get hired at higher pay brackets but they have much less experience. Someone should look at this

1.0

Mar 16, 2016

If you like to suffer for nothing

Cth

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

One of the big pharma, so advantages linked to it (possibilities to move internally, even if not encouraged at all and that applying higher level than yours if discouraged or more)

Cons

Human Ressources not existing; delegation pushed to extreme with middle management maintaining a permanent fear atmosphere to reach objectives with denied means. Unability to use/allocate ressources according to needs (teams dying while other ones are doing almost nothing). Worlife balance not existing.

1.0

Dec 30, 2015

Worst Company for your Career

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

good salary initially, above market compensation to trap you.

Cons

Very poor managers, No hardcore working only update of slides and running some data (cut paste job). heavy titles but no job contents, More you spend time in organization more you loose talent and become dormant. If anybody raise issue or concern, manager make sure he is out of the company in next 6 months... Nice building from outside but no content inside... worst than a KPO setup.... People join to enjoy Gym, Cafeteria, and other facilities... Highest level of favoritism, Politics etc etc..

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