Cult like culture with little room for change - Associate Director Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
17 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Better parental leave policy than most pharma companies. Pay upon hiring is good.

Cons

Promotions & competition for roles dependent on time in J&J & who you know vs actual ability or potential to do job. Everyone touts years within J&J as a measurement of experience at beginning of every intro to isolate out new employees. What you’ve done outside doesn’t count towards your qualifications. Connected & networked employees spend 18 months in a role just enough to make superficial accomplishments then leave for next position/promotions. Meanwhile employees focused on actually doing the work or those who recently joined thinking they’ll have career advancement will struggle to get next position. It’s not fair hiring practices and you don’t stand a chance if you just apply to open roles. Don’t come thinking you’ll be able to move up after joining. Your merits don’t matter here it’s who you know and as a newbie you won’t know as many people.

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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
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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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