Boring Job and Pathetic Benefits - IT Manager Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
28 Dec 2017
Recommend
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Pros

People are genuinely nice here. Lots of employees-led events including charity walks etc Big name and reputation Good place to gain experience.

Cons

Mainly just maintaining old business systems and applications. Revitalising business is often brought up but not much is happening. Super slow innovation. Simple stuff like ecommerce websites and social sharing are only being slowly introduced right now (years after other companies have been doing it) but touted by management as some huge new thing. No in-house capabilities. Even minor cometic changes have to go through third-party vendors which takes up to months and thousands of dollars to implement. Average salary compensation but extremely poor benefits. Way-below average annual amount for flexible benefits and one can only claim health-related expenses such as dental cleaning or vision care. Company also keeps cutting costs and removing available items that can be claimed. The food stock up in pantry are only wheat biscuits and sugarless tea, which is really pathetic for a Fortune 500 MNC. Turnover rate is pretty high as a result. Not uncommon to hear people leaving for better benefits and more exciting roles.

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5.0
5 July 2026
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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.

3.0
16 June 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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