Generally good, secure company - Assistant General Counsel Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

4.0
2 Oct 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Reasonably stable, blue-chip company. The company has a strong heritage and some great, iconic products. Employees are well compensated in relation to their peers at other companies (I think). Opportunities for jumping jobs is high. In some sectors of the organization it is easy to get assignments in foreign countries, which can be really interesting and fulfilling.

Cons

High bureaucracy. Sometime unrealistic sales expectations. Some of the recent ideas of the company's senior management team have not been well thought out in recent years and so expectations have not been achieved. The result has been some fairly dramatic job cuts. Some of these cuts could have been avoided with sharper attention paid to products in development (and a better assessment of their true value and likelihood for commercial success).

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Cons

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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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