All about optics, doesn't back up what they talk about, poor development, good if you are white - Anonymous employee Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

1.0
16 Feb 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Was a good company when I first started and the experience is differentiated based on who your direct manager and team are. Benefits were decent, most people are nice, and lots of smart people to work with.

Cons

New CEO and senior leadership are out of touch - demanding longer work hours, unwilling to adjust pay to fair market conditions, and reducing bonus while they sit in their ivory tower with millions of dollars in bonus after quietly laying off large portions of the workforce. The last soul of what J&J used to be died when our CMO left and with him, many executives have left as well. Paraphrasing from a townhall, executive leadership accuses employees are working longer hours because they are working from home and are not as productive. Advancement is based off of who you know and the color of your skin even though J&J tries to create optics that they care about DEI. Employees are criminally underpaid and they pride themselves in squishing levels. This is an empty shell of a company and no longer is a good place to work.

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Cons

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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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