Low pay and terrible benefits - Software Engineer Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

1.0
28 May 2020
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Pros

Jnj acquires a lot of innovative companies

Cons

Terrible pay for Bay Area. No incentives for individual competitors. Health benefits are really expensive. 401K match doesn't vest for 3 years. Not a good place for software engineers specially in the Bay.

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5.0
2 July 2026
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Pros

The size of the organization provides opportunities to continuously grow your career.

Cons

As a large matrixed organization, innovation speed can be slower than smaller companies or start-ups.

3.0
16 June 2026
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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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