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      Novartis

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      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,042 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,042 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.7 stars).

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      9K reviews
      3.0
      Feb 5, 2009

      Employee beware - Novartis has serious problems in senior management.

      Sales manager
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      Pros

      Novartis is a place where if you work hard and play the political games there are significant opportunities. It is a growing company with a strong research and development pipeline. The people, by and large, are good, honest and hard working. Novartis has previously invested significantly in training and development programs for its staff and if you push yourself there are many career development pathways to follow. They have a history in niche product portfolio's and have shown they have the ability to launch products with reasonable success. Sadly Australia is far from the thoughts of global leaders of the company and currently the PEC appears to be out of contact with their customers and employees - they talk a great deal about being externally focussed but in reality they are a company that is overly internally focussed and bureaucratic with massive administration load for sales people the focus making "Big Brother" reporting the priority.

      Cons

      Honesty and integrity are not the strong points of some of the senior leadership and unfortunately there is a large number of people wanting to make it too the top no matter what the consequences. They have significant medicines australia compliance issues and a culture in management of what can I get away with rather than what is in accordance with the code of conduct. The approach is very bureaucratic and report driven so much so that I would say 40% of a sales reps time is caught up in administrative tasks - for which there is no support as there are no state offices or home office allowances. They operate under the motto of do "more with less" and pay rates are below industry standards when compared to global organisations of a similar size.

      2.0
      Feb 2, 2009

      Don't expect excitement when working in IT.

      It intern
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      It can be a place to start getting experience in the IT field.

      Cons

      This could be a problem with any large corporation, but it can feel like there is little or no forward progress when working on projects. IT only gets in trouble when it delivers something, so many old and ineffective programs stay in place because there isn't much motivation to get things done. There is always big talk about the next project, but most of the time nothing comes from it.

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