Sycophants Rule ! - Anonymous employee Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

2.0
5 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary and benefits above average.

Cons

Science, business plans and even patient safety take a back seat to kissing your bosses behind. Senior managers control parts of the drug discovery business where they have no academic knowledge, no work history and no knowledge or understanding of the regulations, but they do have friends further up the corporate food chain. Hiring & promotion is done on the basis of how much you agree with you boss, not on qualifications, merit or effort.

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3.0
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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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