Novartis reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(9,057 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 9,057 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).

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1.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free Starbucks coffee, good benefits.

Cons

There has been a decision to 'right' source the clinical programming. That translates into a forcing out of senior programming talent and the expectation that the remaining staff will train the over seas programmers. Behind this is the assumption that programmers are commodities which can be replaced with cheaper units at no loss. The majority of the management of the programming staff are ex-statisticians with the attitude that the only reason anyone would program is because they couldn't make the grade as a statistician. Since they had programmed to do homework assignments in school they believe that they understand the issues inherent in clinical programming and any attempts to inject professional concepts of reuseability and standards are unnecessary and a waste of resources. 'Just program and shut up'

3.0
Oct 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great WLB 2. Amazing Colleagues 3. Great benefits

Cons

1. Constant restructure. People always left with anxiety around job security 2. If you are not in a external facing role (sales, commercial, medical) you will never be valued and can be laid off out of the blue 3. Very flat org structure. So you will always wonder your growth opportunities

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