Strong brand and benefits but.... - Anonymous employee Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

2.0
3 Jan 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Significant brand reputation and good long-term benefits. Still offers a pension but has changed unless you were grandfathered in.

Cons

Situations and people are not what they seem from initial interactions. Over time, troubling trends were observed in senior management decisions. The appointment of individuals to leadership roles who lacked the necessary qualifications and expertise led to inefficiencies and decisions that did not always make sense and lowered morale. Certain senior managers promoted toxic practices (eg lack of mutual respect, favoritism, lack of transparency, insufficient support impacting work-life balance). Despite frequent restructuring, these underqualified and dysfunctional leaders remain in their roles (or get promoted). While diversity and inclusion was externally promoted at one time, there is very little diversity amongst the many layers of management. Limited opportunities for advancement for people who do not "look" or speak a certain way despite qualifications and dedication,

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5.0
5 July 2026
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Pros

High performance expectations, pay, benefits

Cons

401k match below average. This is hypothetically offset by a pension, but for those coming to JnJ late in career, higher 401k would be better.

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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