Pros
- Decent work/life balance; remote work; family focus; vacation/summer Fridays and benefits - Some good coworkers that have the best interest of the product and customers in mind
Cons
- Toxic leadership especially at Auris. There are teams with significant attrition and it has been made clear that leadership is the problem. Despite multiple complaints from employees leaving to HR; leadership still remains. This goes against J&J’s claim as being a credo based company. - Groups that have consistently demonstrated they are difficult to work with and don’t achieve business goals and sometimes actively block them from getting achieved are still in place. - Leadership team is inexperienced leading to ill informed strategy. Little focus and resources on fixing problems customers have been complaining about to make the basic product do what it needs to. - No solid long term vision to grow market share or even retain business - endless months spent on ‘Discovery’ only to find out that they’re behind the competition. - Heavy handed R&D teams that make poor design choices; does little to understand customers or listen to input from customer facing teams leading to a product customers are increasingly frustrated with. - extremely poor decisions leading to a significant delay in the surgical robotic platform. - continuous loss of great talent due to the above problems. It’s clear that the current strategy is not working and there is no way to surpass let alone catch up to competition.