Terrible leadership, some decent engineers - Project Manager Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

1.0
19 May 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Name brand - everyone knows J&J. Benefits are ok (not great), compensation is good if you are willing to stay 5+ years to get that pension, Gorsky knows how to milk the press for all that it is worth (just look at the COVID vaccine stuff)

Cons

Where do I begin? J&J has a terrible company culture. Mediocrity and incompetence are rewarded. Leadership promotes based on who they like, zero evaluation of employee's skills. Lots of paper pushers because talented people are "threats" to the middle management who are extremely lazy. HR protects managers and directors while using buzzwords to make it sound like they are inclusive and care about talent. Most talented engineers leave early career if they can - once you reach a certain mid career "level", it is hard to leave and so you are basically stuck. J&J's acquisitions are a joke - they essentially botch every one of them by gutting the acquired company and bringing in their less talented and less competent management.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

The size of the organization provides opportunities to continuously grow your career.

Cons

As a large matrixed organization, innovation speed can be slower than smaller companies or start-ups.

3.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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