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      Novartis

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      Novartis reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,052 total reviews)
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      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 9,052 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 Farmacéutica y biotecnología industry (3.7 stars).

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      9K reviews
      3.0
      Apr 9, 2009

      Narcissistic company culture attracting narcissistic managers!

      human resources business unit head
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good salary, reasonable career opportunities. Novartis is a good place to work if you are very ambitious and do not care about your health and private life. The Novartis Campus Project is gigantic. So, Novartis is definitely a great place for you if you love to work in fancy buildings designed by the worlds most famous architects!

      Cons

      It is not really performance that counts, but how you are able to sell yourself, how you do your self-marketing.

      2.0
      Dec 29, 2008

      Great benefits, poor culture. Not recommended for sensitive types.

      It project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great opportunities for learning and personal development. Good salary. Difficult to beat the salary, if you can tolerate the unhealthy culture.

      Cons

      A company which is full of pushy middle-managers with no life outside Novartis. Make your manager think that you work long hours, shout loudly about small achievements, and suck up to the right people and you will do well at Novartis. The people who do the work are not necessarily the ones who are rewarded. Keep your head down, and work efficiently and you'll end up stuck in the same job forever. A strong separation between the "loved" and "unloved" in Novartis. Depending on your manager and your department within the organization, associates might be offered 1000 times more development opportunities (e.g. MBA-sponsorship) than other, similarly-motiviated and capable employees.

      5.0
      Jan 29, 2025

      Great Place to work

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Variety of interesting projects to work on and nice colleagues

      Cons

      Have big ideas in AI but need to perhaps focus on the boring basics a bit more around data and engineering.

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