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      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,056 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      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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      9K reviews
      2.0
      May 9, 2011

      Tough Environment

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good compensation; good benefits compared to other companies in Basel: lots of work but can learn a lot; worldwide opportunities.

      Cons

      Very beaucratic; poor in training people; difficult career advancement unless personal network is strong; too much work; too political - difficult to move up.

      3.0
      Feb 5, 2009

      Employee beware - Novartis has serious problems in senior management.

      Sales manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Novartis is a place where if you work hard and play the political games there are significant opportunities. It is a growing company with a strong research and development pipeline. The people, by and large, are good, honest and hard working. Novartis has previously invested significantly in training and development programs for its staff and if you push yourself there are many career development pathways to follow. They have a history in niche product portfolio's and have shown they have the ability to launch products with reasonable success. Sadly Australia is far from the thoughts of global leaders of the company and currently the PEC appears to be out of contact with their customers and employees - they talk a great deal about being externally focussed but in reality they are a company that is overly internally focussed and bureaucratic with massive administration load for sales people the focus making "Big Brother" reporting the priority.

      Cons

      Honesty and integrity are not the strong points of some of the senior leadership and unfortunately there is a large number of people wanting to make it too the top no matter what the consequences. They have significant medicines australia compliance issues and a culture in management of what can I get away with rather than what is in accordance with the code of conduct. The approach is very bureaucratic and report driven so much so that I would say 40% of a sales reps time is caught up in administrative tasks - for which there is no support as there are no state offices or home office allowances. They operate under the motto of do "more with less" and pay rates are below industry standards when compared to global organisations of a similar size.

      2.0
      Jan 5, 2009

      Pays well, but you are a cog in the wheel

      Associate director
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      Pros

      Pays well Tries to focus on innovation Not a lot of beuracracy

      Cons

      Every employee is treated like a number, does not value its employees Churns and burns people out, senior leadership is a revolving door Runs the company like a bank, is unable to invest in the long term health of the business (R&D, IT, etc)

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