Mediocre Pay and Benefits - Engineer Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

1.0
17 Aug 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* Many smart and talented coworkers * Some of the mid level managers are great. * Interesting product * Stable company

Cons

* Pay is low for Bay Area. * Limited healthcare plans. After acquisition my open enrollment options reduced from a dozen plans to two plans. * Don’t expect any stock rewards unless you’re management. * No investment in individuals – long term incentive plans are tied to impossible milestones * Lots of talk about the Credo, little in action. * Upper management is in a different world and seems indifferent to the concerns of the rank and file. No transparency whatsoever. We ask many questions during our weekly calls, but few ever get straight answers. Some don’t even get a response, and answers are rarely written down or recorded so you have to rely on management to not change their opinion. * Constant pressure to go into the office, even when you’ve stated your health concerns with COVID. You’re an essential employee if you’re R&D… better to be an engineer at a company where you can work at home.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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