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    Found 952 reviews

    3.9
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    76%
    Recommend to a Friend
    88%
    Approve of CEO
    Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen
    204 Ratings
    Pros

    • "Very good work-life balance, chilled environment at the same time as hard work" (in 145 reviews)

    • "Great benefits and reasonable cost, good PTO to start, still cares about employees" (in 63 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Ambitious targets affecting work life balance" (in 45 reviews)

    • "becoming big pharma with some of the negatives of periodic restructuring layoffs" (in 23 reviews)

    More Pros and Cons

    1. "Rather not say"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Flexible, care about their people

      Cons

      none at this time. Place is great

      Novo Nordisk2018-09-13

    2. "great innovative products"

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      Former Employee - Medical Sales Representative in Ottawa, ON
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time for more than 5 years

      Pros

      amazing products and state of the art production plant in Danemark

      Cons

      management is a challenge at the v-p and below level

      Advice to Management

      value your experienced employees a little more

      Novo Nordisk2019-06-10
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    3. "Miss working at NNCI"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Work life balance, great pay, excellent benefits.

      Cons

      Clinical Research moved to the US.

      Novo Nordisk2019-03-17
    4. Helpful (1)

      "The Canadian affiliate is not the best place to work at"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Mississauga, ON
      Doesn't Recommend

      I worked at Novo Nordisk for more than 5 years

      Pros

      Benefits and compensation are ok

      Cons

      No hope for career development if you only know to work hard but don’t know how to flatter your manager

      Advice to Management

      The management team always claim to care about employees and keeping talents. The reality is about politics, if you don’t know how to flatter your boss, no matter how good your performance is, you can be let go any time without just reason. There are more and more such cases over the past few years since the company has put “let go without just cause “ as a standard termination clause in the offer letter that every employee...

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      Novo Nordisk2019-01-16

    5. "Amazing company to work with"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Opportunities, career expansion, healthy and engaging environment

      Cons

      some times it extends working hours due to high work threshold

      Advice to Management

      Hire more people

      Novo Nordisk2018-08-09

    6. "Senior Product Manager"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Innovative products , great talent and atmosphere

      Cons

      Very conservative, sometimes bureacratic company

      Novo Nordisk2018-03-25
    7. Helpful (2)

      "Good but not the best"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      great people to work with

      Cons

      no room to grow , no easy to get any promotion

      Novo Nordisk2018-03-22
    8. Helpful (2)

      "Pretty good"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Flex benefits, flex hours of work, able to work from home

      Cons

      High turn over of staff

      Novo Nordisk2018-02-17

    9. "Novo Nordisk"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Novo Nordisk full-time

      Pros

      Very good company, friendly working environment

      Cons

      Diversity is the focus and still need to improve

      Novo Nordisk2017-12-28
    10. Helpful (1)

      "Very Political"

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      Current Employee - Marketing Manager in Mississauga, ON
      Recommends
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Novo Nordisk full-time for more than a year

      Pros

      Good work life balance and benefits. Great company events. New office in the Oct 2017 promises to have cafe and gym onsite.

      Cons

      Company policies vary by manager. Lots of micromanagement stemming from a very political environment. Managers are able and do hold back great employees from moving to advanced roles they are offered to keep competent employees helping them shine rather than letting them grow and develop elsewhere.

      Advice to Management

      Managers should not have an option to hold employees back from internal moves (it just makes them move externally). Company policies need to be clear and applied equally.

      Novo Nordisk2017-04-01
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