Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,052 total reviews)
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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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3.0
Jun 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The company does great things for people - the company helps people live longer, healthier lives. The employees are professional, well-educated, and are competent.

Cons

The leadership listens to consultants too frequently - the consultants want to sell an "idea" that may or may not be feasible. The leaders need their own "fresh" ideas to sell up the chain of command, and so they buy into many of the worthless "ideas" of consultants and believe that young, inexperienced consultants actually have better "ideas" than proven, dedicated employees. The leaders need to wake up and FIRE all consultants, and FORMER consultants that are now employees. All of the consultants lack the dedication and operational expertise to actually take an "idea" and execute. The consultants have repeatedly sold leaders "ideas" that are quickly reversed by the new leaders of the organization who need to have thier own new, "fresh ideas". For example, reorganizing the company - how many times are we going to de-centralize, then centralize, then de-centralize again?

4.0
Jun 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great budget so you can do the research without worrying too much about costs, relatively academic feel and there is always the option to do side projects as long as it doesn't interfere with your main work, good compensation

Cons

Contract work can be frustrating as you never really know what's going to come of it, large company which tends to cause problems related to bureaucratic functions

5.0
Jun 8, 2010

Great place to work.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Family friendly, full of smart people that are competent in what they do. Leadership makes decent decisions for the most part.

Cons

A little bit of a country club culture.

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