Johnson & Johnson Reviews

Pros

* highly collaborative
* caring people, very engaged
* stable revenue and great benefits: stil has a pension program
* plenty of opportunities to move around and up

Cons

* as a new person, hard to get traction due to long term relationships trump your experience
* collaboration has it's downside: takes a LOT of meetings to get decisions made; more focused on touching base vs getting something done
* management churn - constant churn at the top causes ripples through the company

Pros

The company is structured, organized and value work-life balance. It has a set of guidelines that value customers, patients, doctors, employees and shareholders

Cons

Too slow to move and bring change even when its needed. Management can't think differently and often looses the time-to-market.

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to re- invent systems to work efficiently and quickly in order to compete with start-ups and faced paces silicon valley companies.

Pros

Variety of work and opportunities, given multiple companies.

Cons

Do more with less mentality, internal churn.

Advice to Senior Management

Less internal work, and more focus on customers and patients.

Pros

High expectations & accountability and strong performance is rewarded with fair compensation. Its a numbers game and if your at the top you will be rewarded...if not get ready

Cons

Employee development has been lacking

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your people and open lines of communication to retain your good performers.

Pros

Global organization with many business units offers diverse career growth opportunities in numerous roles. Like many big pharma companies, J&J offers excellent salary and benefits.

Cons

Downsides of working at J&J include short-term focus on profitability to satisfy Wall Street, lack of internal communication, excessive bureaucracy, and frequent turnover or restructuring of brand teams and sales forces which has created quality issues and disconnect with customers.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice includes more visibility and vision from senior management to increase employee engagement, morale and dedication to quality and customer-focus.

Pros

- Great company
- Great pay and benefits
- Very intelligent and competent employees
- Promotes work-life balance and flexible work arrangements

Cons

- Lots of restructuring (i.e. layoffs) over the last few years
- Very "cliquey" inside... it's like high school or Survivor
- Difficult to get promotions within finance, except from a few specific roles
- Office locations are in the middle of nowhere (not great for single young professionals)
- Used to have the "small company feel, big company impact" that they preach so often, but due to all of the restructuring this is no longer the case. It's just like any other major corporation.

Advice to Senior Management

Really need to focus on peoples' contributions to the business, rather than the relationships they have with their superiors. More direct communication about changes that will affect individual employees. Have an office in SOME city.

Pros

One of the best reasons to work for Johnson & Johnson is the benefits package and large pay scale that can be achieved with this company.

Cons

The one downside of working for this company is the fact that they are so large you feel as if you're just a number. Also, the particular plant currently employed does not have their act together whatsoever.

Pros

Great compensation plan, great products, but upper management is VERY slow to move forward. they believe in their credo but do not practice it

Cons

With all of their money one would think they would make better business decisions. Again, they believe in their credo but do not practice it

Pros

Employee Perks were acceptable, vacations and sick days were appropriate

Cons

Salary was way below market average. Permotion oppertunity non existant.

Pros

Good pay and benefits with company store discounts.

Cons

Heavy work load, no says thank you or good job. You can never do good enough for the big medical giant.

Advice to Senior Management

Prepare to take a beating when coming into the company, very stressful environment with constant change and poor management.