Most stressful job! - Product Owner Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It was a great initiative with patient and specialty services, where they were building an end to end workflow to provide medication from manufacturer to patient. Most of my team members were hard-working and wonderful. My contract pay was great!

Cons

Nobody on the PSS program knew what they were doing. They were trying to follow, scaled agile framework, but the execution was extremely poor. Most workers ended up putting in overtime, the timelines were extremely unrealistic, work life balance was pretty much nonexistent. I not only left the company, but immediately sought out therapy to reduce my stress levels.

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Great leaders of the program, Jess and Raf, they still keep in touch with past interns good envrionemnt, had living provided and cahrlie car got very close with other interns (network for life)

Cons

Training was long and the mentors shoudlve done it too some of the departments are clicky and some mentors suck and skip through the training

2.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pays pretty well in comparison to similar jobs in the market

Cons

Unstable schedule where you are often asked to come in overnight (1-2 am) regardless of if you have worked the previous day or are off. Basically feels like you're permanently on-call to conduct environmental monitoring. Training is slow. The Micro dept in general is currently understaffed. The job also involves lab work once you are done with your daily environmental monitoring tasks. The work never ceases and the Technicians as a whole has several responsibilities. Promotions seem to come very slowly here.

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