If you aren't looking to set the world on fire, JnJ is a place for you - IT Manager Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
19 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly people, excellent long-term benefits, competitive compensation. Overall the mission and the credo is real - everyone can know they had a part in positively impacting over a billion people per day.

Cons

In Technology, there is either a 70% overlap in roles or 100% gap. Organizational management is atrocious. There is a constant feud between Business Unit IT and Shared-Services IT. I've been here for 11 years on both sides in 7 different roles, I promise you that previous assessment is not myopic. Huge amount of waste in the Tech Product Management lifecycle is extremely high. There is generally more people doing project management / coordination tasks on a project then there is people defining, designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting a product. I often have to go on "status update" tours (remember TPS reports from the movie "Office Space") every time something happens. Look this is a great company but the bloat is enormous. If you are someone looking for a pension after 40 years of working the same job 30-40 hours a week, this place is for you. After reaching middle management, it's extremely hard to move up further without spending the majority of the time in a political ruse. I came from their IT leadership development program...I think I'm 1 of 3 left in their original class of around 50...that's pretty common.

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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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