Novartis Pharmaceuticals Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"It was a nice pleasure working with different teams, and I learned a lot."

"Great place to work, Excellent IT teams across the organization."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Yes, I do like to work for this company longer."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This is a very dynamic company, but you can learn a lot."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"The fact that they lay off employees due to company reorganization."

"This has the potential to be someone's dream job."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Great products and promotional materials coupled with some really outstanding sales professionals."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Read the company webpage and make certain that you pay attention to the current products, their patent expiration and the company pipeline."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"The training has been decentralized and seemed rushed. Still, trainers were available to answer questions before, during and after the official training period."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to hold representatives accountable for their territory and provide support and guidance."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"They pay well. They have a good pipeline of products."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't come here, keep looking. This place is a mess."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"My commute is too far. I want to make more money. I don't feel valued and completely supported. They are inefficient and processes are not easily defined."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more collaborative, listen more, develop my reports, help them achieve their career aspirations."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Dynamic work and responsibilities. Many opportunities to pursue creative interests."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure that you're willing to do the work that pays the bill."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"It can be pretty chaotic. There's a lot of tribal knowledge floating around."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I'd establish a calmer working environment and fewer mobile employees. Everyone deserves a desk."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Getting to work on new technologies and many challenging projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure to ask about turnover of previous employees in the group and how tight timelines are."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"It may be a little too fast paced for my work style."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would make sure that people don't feel overwhelmed with too many tasks."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"It was a great introduction into the pharma biotech marketplace."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Appreciate the strong pipeline and the resources and growth potential."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Lack of upward mobility and compensation, and amount of turnover."

"Positive, life changing and a great experience."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"I enjoyed the people, the culture and the code of ethics they enforced."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Try to be honest, genuine and be yourself at all times."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"I did not like the lack of funds and resources needed to promote the products."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To always be open with communication and expectations and to have a will to win attitude that is contagious."

"Positive, life changing, challenging and rewarding."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"I like many things but mostly the people, standards and code of ethics."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would suggest to always be honest, open and candid."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"The lack of funds and resources to promote the products."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To have an open forum of communication and a will to win attitude. To always have suggestions and advice whether it is good, bad or indifferent. To grow and change is the best way to reach success."

"Good except for layoffs due to generic competition."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Autonomy, innovation, creativity, research-based, pipeline, diversity, awards, medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, be innovative and creative, work hard, teamwork, be passionate with your job."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Layoffs, big organization where career opportunities are lesser, slow implementation of ideas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Buy biotech companies with products for obesity and diabetes, stop using the current employee evaluation method during layoffs - you miss out on good people and you retain those who even do not know proper English grammar."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"It was gratifying to work for a company that could be profitable, while genuinely saving the lives of people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Focus on your ability to collaborate and to work in environments where individual responsibilities are vague and overlapping."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Novartis allowed and perhaps expected that each change in leadership was also a change in organizational strategy. These strategic shifts did result in change for the sake of change, rather then for improved results."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be more inclusive of the previous work as new management and structure was created."

"Very educational as far as the processes and industry standards."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"The nature of what our job was. Making meds to help others."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest with your experience as it relates to the position being offered. Stay open to opportunities that come your way in the area of training."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Having to sometimes accept the fact that mistakes were going to made."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To keep a culture that expresses empowerment by accepting value added ideas from all level associates relevant to the process."

"Excellent global company to work with."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"I found the people to be very supportive of one another's activities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Must be very resourceful, have excellent communication, and be patient."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Often very disorganized and too many separate vendor organizations impeding on getting activities completed in a reasonable time frame."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reduce the number of vendors and parties involved in their projects."

What do you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Good collaborative environment and research focuses on treatment of unmet medical needs."

What don't you like about working at Novartis Pharmaceuticals?

"Bureaucracy and having to deal with problems from other business units."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better mitigation of problems as they pertain to certain departments and not having to implement company-wide reforms to address these issues."