Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,056 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 9,056 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
Mar 21, 2017

Not Good Times at NVS

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Pros

Great people in the ranks - very intelligent and collaborative, good benefits

Cons

Poor senior management leadership; short-term management of company; pay not as competitive as other companies in space and same size

4.0
Feb 12, 2017

It used to be better

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Pros

Benefits are great. If you are in the right location, opportunities exist. State of the art manufacturing for most parts of the world.

Cons

Trying to change the organization for the future will push a lot of jobs overseas. The bureaucracy can make getting things done in a timely fashion frustrating, if not almost impossible.

2.0
Feb 6, 2017

Bad Environment Where I Was

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits are pretty good.

Cons

The environment was pretty bad. The typical brutal politics, but one thing that bothered me was the forced gender diversity. My division was 90% women and they still had all of them in the empowering women in Novartis group, forced objectives of at least half of the upper salary bands had to be female and that created a lot of issues.

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