Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,061 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 9,061 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 Farmaceutico e biotecnologico industry (3.7 stars).

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9K reviews
5.0
May 20, 2017

45000

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Pros

Good Company... Hard work is very important

Cons

Theresa aren't a big growth

2.0
Apr 11, 2017

Overvalued pharma company: bureaucratic, risk adverse, and old-fashioned

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big corporation with a lot of opportunities worldwide; still many benefits for the employees; great choice if you want to have a very good work-life balance. Very strong research labs (if you are so lucky to get into those)

Cons

Way too much politics involved in any position at Regional/Global/Country management. Nepotism rules. Bureaucratic, risk adverse, and old-fashioned approach in many activities still performed like 20 years ago. Despite what is preached, patients are not at the center of the daily work and the level of employees is not as good as in other competitors.

5.0
Mar 26, 2017

Intern-research

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great environment to learn new techniques

Cons

No jobs offered after the internship period

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