The golden cage company - Finance Manager Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
3 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay in the short term

Cons

Highly political company - old management style - you can only progress in your career in this company if you have the right connections. Once you hit 40 the story completely changes, you are no longer an asset but a "cost". The company went through a number of re-organisations the last few years to solve the high number of reporting lines and corresponding costs and spent fortunes on consultancy as it own people simply have no clue what to do or have not got the courage to speak up. Politics rules this company from bottom to top. Courage guys !

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Pros

High performance expectations, pay, benefits

Cons

401k match below average. This is hypothetically offset by a pension, but for those coming to JnJ late in career, higher 401k would be better.

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3.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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