Could earn a comfortable living if you can put up with lackluster management - Research Fellow Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
13 June 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The size, global locations and diversity of positions allows for movement within the company w/o loss of benefits, salary or accumulated time. There are >160 companies & 1,000 different sites around the world. You can make a comfortable living and if you don't do anything wrong can gradually move up in management or technical ladders. If you are not appriciated you can move somewhere else.

Cons

Very political. Certain people are targeted as "Golden" and are given all the chances. The rest have to settle for gradual advancement and secondary positions. However, just like the weather in NJ, "If you don't like it, don't worry it will change soon", and management changes over quickly. Once the Group Company Vice Chairman leaves, then every body below is reshuffled and a new regime takes over. This happens about every 2 to 3 yrs.

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5.0
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Pros

People driven and a lot of opportunitiy

Cons

Burocratic and slow old systems

3.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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