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
4.0
Nov 6, 2023

Keeper job if...

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Pros

some very talented and caring employees - peers and bosses. Employee benefits are great! Good development opportunities but you have to be your own boss i.e. self-driven

Cons

Politics at senior level - Director and above, won't be fun to work for a boss you don't have a good match with working style

3.0
Sep 25, 2023

Novartis

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Pros

The people are great. Very collaborative

Cons

Recently went through a restructure to give shareholders greater returns at the expense of the people. They let go 8000 people globally. The process was very badly managed and the end result not great

5.0
Aug 14, 2023

Great company to be at

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Pros

Benefits were great even compared to other big pharmas, great people and culture, great dei initiative compared to other pharma companies, flexible working hours, relatively good processes. Great science. Patient focused.

Cons

Management is clearly not trained well but they do their best. Could be more transparent. Company wide dei initiatives exist - many opportunities to join calls and discussions but in the day to day it doesn’t seem to matter as much. Probably team/department dependent. Company is restructuring often. Making changes then redoing those changes. Resulting in more and more layoffs then reposting of positions that were cut. I really liked Vas up to the announcement of the huge cuts.

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