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      Novartis

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      Novartis reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,042 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,042 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 7, 2008

      Good place to work

      pharmaceutical sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good products, good street name, team environment. Started my career here in order to make Great Work-Life balance. Very collaborative work environment. Great encouragement to the employees from the management for learning courses that contribute to career development, professional and personal growth.

      Cons

      promotional opportunities are scarce, territories are huge It is a big company, and you will feel invariably feel the beauracracies largely attributed to big companies. To get promoted you really have to invest considerable amount of time doing all the extra other things

      2.0
      Sep 7, 2008

      Paralysis by Analysis

      Associate it director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefits if you have a family. Also have good pension and medical that isn't very expensive. Global company that is doing well financially

      Cons

      Employees are not trusted or empowered. Hi level of constant review and approval before moving forward. Promotions are not based on accomplishments or meeting/exceeding objective. They are based on being "friends" with the right people. Company wastes a lot of money by over analysing and gaining approval from too many decision makers

      4.0
      Aug 29, 2008

      Great people/ career advancement - pressure of balancing several projects.

      Research associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great pay and benefits. Also, wonderful people to work with all in my work area are willing to pause what they are doing to help you. My manager is understanding when time off needs to be taken and is interested in associates as humans as well as scientists. Overall management is supportive of investing into associates by allowing them continually more responsibility and to take continuing education.

      Cons

      There is quite a bit of pressure to get work done and a large balancing act needs to happen to work on several separate projects at once. The specialty IT assets for science apps. aren't the best- but then again crack programmers won't choose pharma as their first choice to work.

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