Unsupportive & Unrewarding - Intern Novartis Employee Review

1.0
Aug 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The company pays very well, and you might have a good experience depending on your team. It also seems to be a good company for finding a work/family balance and many people stick around for decades. The company executives also seem like great people.

Cons

A Novartis experience will be different for everyone because it's a massive company, but I recommend looking elsewhere. Overall, I had a nice team of little fish in our dated office, but I also had spineless and backward-minded (micro) management that was unsupportive and uncommunicative when it mattered.

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5.0
Apr 17, 2026
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Pros

Great leaders of the program, Jess and Raf, they still keep in touch with past interns good envrionemnt, had living provided and cahrlie car got very close with other interns (network for life)

Cons

Training was long and the mentors shoudlve done it too some of the departments are clicky and some mentors suck and skip through the training

2.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pays pretty well in comparison to similar jobs in the market

Cons

Unstable schedule where you are often asked to come in overnight (1-2 am) regardless of if you have worked the previous day or are off. Basically feels like you're permanently on-call to conduct environmental monitoring. Training is slow. The Micro dept in general is currently understaffed. The job also involves lab work once you are done with your daily environmental monitoring tasks. The work never ceases and the Technicians as a whole has several responsibilities. Promotions seem to come very slowly here.

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