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
4.0
Oct 25, 2017

Communications Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible working, benefits, salary. These are all I can say about this company at the moment.

Cons

Workload, workload, workload. workload. workload, workload, workload. workload. workload, workload, workload. workload. workload. workload, workload. workload. workload. workload, workload. workload

1.0
Jun 8, 2017

Turf Wars

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation is average for industry and company size

Cons

Constant turf wars between departments; Basel and USA, German, British , French, etc who stay in power and treat people by "ours" and not. Harsh treatment of colleagues, bureaucracy out of this world, incompetence.

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

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