Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,052 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 9,052 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 Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry (3.5 stars).

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9K reviews
2.0
Jan 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay especially on holidays, plenty of overtime opportunities. At least among same level co-workers there's a good environment.

Cons

Management is a mess for the most part, many managers across multiple departments don't have little if any familiarity of daily operations or processes, they will definitely judge your performance on this though, management will emphasize basic micromanagement things like scheduling and idle work but largely ignore operation issues or product quality concerns. Very poor communication as well, I have a medical condition that factored into my termination, I was given one warning on tardiness, gave an explanation to the issue and assured it wasn't a problem then fired without warning and cut off from all contact

5.0
Nov 6, 2019

Good place to work and learn

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Science driven organization, focus on employee development

Cons

Heavy process driven, can slow down work

1.0
Sep 5, 2019

Another lay-off

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a pay check

Cons

They don't treat their people right!

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