Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,053 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 9,053 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
3.0
Jul 31, 2015

Culture change needed

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Pros

Novartis provides a lot of great benefits and for the longest time had a great culture. They have a lot of capital and some very good products.

Cons

In the past year, it has drastically turned from a team atmosphere to one or two people making all of the strategy and then monitoring to the nth degree. There is no collaboration of thought, no empowerment of thought/actions, just a command of execution and then when the execution is fulfilled but sales do not follow the blame only goes to the sales teams

2.0
Dec 18, 2013

No regard for years of service

Recommend
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Pros

Great products, challenging environment, good pay and benefits

Cons

Political, little opportunity for advancement

3.0
Oct 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Salary is good. Resources are good. Bright minds for discussing ideas.

Cons

Can be slow to change. Management is extremely top down, and has too many layers. Roles are very rigid, difficult to get exposure to areas outside of individual specialty.

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