Big company, low salaries? - Anonymous employee Novartis Employee Review

3.0
10 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great learning opportunities. Excellent company to start your career. Pipeline is broad and promising. Science driven. Career opportunities are real.

Cons

Salaries always below market average forces talents to leave. Micromanagement. Oncology pipeline taking too long to take off.

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5.0
17 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great leaders of the program, Jess and Raf, they still keep in touch with past interns good envrionemnt, had living provided and cahrlie car got very close with other interns (network for life)

Cons

Training was long and the mentors shoudlve done it too some of the departments are clicky and some mentors suck and skip through the training

5.0
3 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good company and culture in general

Cons

Constant reorganization and lay offs make ppl anxious

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