Skip to contentSkip to footer
      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Novartis

      Engaged Employer

      Novartis reviews

      4.0

      80% would recommend to a friend

      (9,057 total reviews)
      avatar

      Vas Narasimhan

      86% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Novartis has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 9,057 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).

      Reviews by job title

      9K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 16, 2016

      If you like to suffer for nothing

      Cth
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      One of the big pharma, so advantages linked to it (possibilities to move internally, even if not encouraged at all and that applying higher level than yours if discouraged or more)

      Cons

      Human Ressources not existing; delegation pushed to extreme with middle management maintaining a permanent fear atmosphere to reach objectives with denied means. Unability to use/allocate ressources according to needs (teams dying while other ones are doing almost nothing). Worlife balance not existing.

      1.0
      Dec 30, 2015

      Worst Company for your Career

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good salary initially, above market compensation to trap you.

      Cons

      Very poor managers, No hardcore working only update of slides and running some data (cut paste job). heavy titles but no job contents, More you spend time in organization more you loose talent and become dormant. If anybody raise issue or concern, manager make sure he is out of the company in next 6 months... Nice building from outside but no content inside... worst than a KPO setup.... People join to enjoy Gym, Cafeteria, and other facilities... Highest level of favoritism, Politics etc etc..

      3.0
      Jul 31, 2015

      Culture change needed

      Management
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Novartis provides a lot of great benefits and for the longest time had a great culture. They have a lot of capital and some very good products.

      Cons

      In the past year, it has drastically turned from a team atmosphere to one or two people making all of the strategy and then monitoring to the nth degree. There is no collaboration of thought, no empowerment of thought/actions, just a command of execution and then when the execution is fulfilled but sales do not follow the blame only goes to the sales teams

      Viewing 271 - 273 of 9,057 Reviews
      Related searches: Novartis jobs | Novartis salaries | Novartis benefits | Novartis interviews | Novartis conversations
      ReviewsNovartis reviews

      Glassdoor has 12,647 Novartis reviews submitted anonymously by Novartis employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Novartis is right for you.