Johnson & Johnson Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Went through 4 rounds of interview (screening, two HR rounds, and one last one with the engineers). Pretty straight forward, open ended questions about back ground and professional experience.

Negotiation Details – Not flexible, but have no complaints.

Interview Details – Applied for the job through the company portal and received an email from someone requesting a phone interview. Phone interview went great and was told that I would receive a follow up in about 2 weeks. I followed up, but it ended with no offer.

Interview Details – Interview style may vary. If you are following a traditional career path for sales, marketing, IT, etc... it is easier to get hired. Internal candidates get the preference and networking with key stakeholders will give you the edge. Difficult to move between operating units. An example is going from Consumer to Pharma, not an easy transition unless you have the stars aligned.

Interview Details – I had several interviews over a couple of years, since I had targeted this company and had a couple of sponsors who kept my name in front of hiring managers. When I had my final interviews, (a total of four), I felt comfortable with the team and was told that they were comfortable with me and were interested in hiring me, even before the offer was finalized.

Negotiation Details – Negotiation matched my salary expectations.
I was not able to negotiate additional time off, which was a big deal for me. I had just left a company with 6 weeks of time off and had hoped to negotiate a lower salary in exchange for an additional week of time off. I wasn't able to do this and only had three weeks of time off.

Interview Details – I got the interview through oncampus recruitment. There was an initial interview where I interviewed with a member of the Tax department. It was fairly conversational. Any questions were all behavioral. We clicked and about 3.5 weeks later got a call for super day in Princeton. However, due to Sandy this was postponed and a few weeks later we had the interviews with around 50-60 others in a hotel in Philly. There were team building events, a an assessment test, networking events with other JNJ professionals. it was 2 days long. After that the second day was 3 interviews at the hotel with 3 professionals. It was also behavioral. I was rejected approximately 2 days later by email. The company was quick with that.

Interview Details – Informal interview during campus recruiting event and constant contact via email afterwards

Negotiation Details – Received other offers from two other companies, but I wanted this one the most so I accepted.

Interview Details – 2 managers from different departments interviewing you. Mostly behavior questions in the STAR Format. They give you a scenario to play out for them in which you have to explain it in STAR format. They give you only 3 of these questions and mostly expect you to be able to talk about them for a long period of time. Environment is rather casual.

Interview Details – Phone interview

Interview Details – Interviewed with two different professionals who were not in the HR department. The interview consisted of a majority of behavioral questions asking about background, ethics, etc and then the follow up consists of technical questions. Be sure to emphasize the credo, which Johnson and Johnson holds to in all parts of their business.