Novartis Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Novartis full-time for more than a year

Pros – They know how to handle people.

Cons – When Pfizer people came in, every single rush counts.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Novartis full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good environment and on time to rest

Cons – Tanning must be provided to PA's

Advice to Senior Management – Form fill by PA,s must be in proper format and has to fill complete and clear

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novartis as an intern for less than a year

Pros – great atmosphere. managers are really helpful as are the members that are within your team. great place to do a co-op.

Cons – Salary was not as great as what I was expecting.

also, having people picket outside the workplace is strange.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Novartis full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – fast growing, multicultural environment, changes everyday, challenging, great colleagues

Cons – too many organizational levels, too much bureaucracy, complex multidivisional structure, internal shared services are too expensive for small countries

Advice to Senior Management – enforce career opportunities for current employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novartis full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – previous Experience with Pharmaceutical company

Cons – working as 3rd party employee, which is not satisfied

Advice to Senior Management – every employee wants to work with direct company payroll, instead of third party

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novartis full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great products, good systems and support, focus on R&D for new products

Cons – More reactive than proactive to market changes, doesn't always fully engage with employees

Advice to Senior Management – Be more adaptable and flexible in approach to market rather than relying on size and using one size fits all approach

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Novartis full-time for less than a year

Pros – Huge company with lots of different paths for individual development. The comapny also supports employees with individual development plans based on skills, interests and background.

Cons – The size of the company has the disadvantage that many processes are well defined and many people/functions are involved. Therefore, quick decisions or individual ideas are difficult to realize.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize flater hirachies! Quite difficult to oversee all structures.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Novartis

Pros – Nice development and coaching of people

Cons – I would say that there are no obvious cons

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on doing good job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novartis as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Excellent working environment with friendly and helpful staff and management. Really enjoyed my experience as an intern.

Cons – Can't recall any negative aspects of working at Novartis. Was hired through an agency so any administrative issues were dealt with through them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Novartis full-time

Pros – Good salary, benefits, vacation time. They seem have a decent pipeline, and are pushing for new products to reach market faster. People and environment are usually decent. Immense resource of intelligent employees.

Cons – It seems you have to know someone to get in, and be "chosen" to move forward into a higher position. Also, certain situations are not handled by management and HR in a confidential or proper manner.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more direction for newer employees to be able to reach higher levels. Pay more attention to how functional managers behave toward their subordinates. Corporate management may have great strategies, but those ideas will be lost if not carried throughout all levels of management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend