Good culture overall, but lacked leadership execution - Mechanical Engineer Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

4.0
30 Mar 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance in the mechanical engineering org. Collaborative and relaxed culture. Both hands on and analytical work were available. Beautiful Santa Clara office

Cons

Out of touch sr leadership. Urged us to believe in the cause, but the messaging sounded more like a plea for our trust. No execution strategy or planning that made us confident in sr leadership, which ended up causing a massive amount of people to leave for other opportunities. Took a large pivot internally through project cancellation, turning interesting R&D work into sustaining. Made technical growth challenging. Base pay wasn't necessarily poor, but very low/no RSUs. 401k had to be vested after 3 years.

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5.0
29 Jun 2026
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Pros

work life balance and challenging

Cons

work life balance fluctuations. Travel

3.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

The colleagues I worked with were great, friendly, helpful. Because the colleagues were great, I'd love to work there full-time, but this was a short contract.

Cons

The supervisor I was ultimately working for had never worked in digital-related products, in which I had decades of experience. He seemed to be unaware of what every colleague would be telling me (I was interviewing colleagues using a software the manager was intending to propose use for firm-wide). Both the colleagues I interviewed, and the internal technical staff I was speaking with knew the project would not function as he seemed intent on ... forcing(?) it do so. I gave him the resulting report of its users' feedback, and I was finished with my contract. He had gone through 2 other women in this same role, already. And he hired a male after me who delivered esentially the same results. Because I wasn't there, I have no idea of the dream outcome this manager attained, or switched to, later.

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