McNeil Consumer Healthcare Reviews in Fort Washington, PA

Current Employee – been working at McNeil Consumer Healthcare as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Awesome work environment
Learned a lot
treated as member of team rather than intern
had many responsibilities
awesome experience working in global environment

Cons – weird hours due to Global atmosphere
lots of stress due to lots of work

Advice to Senior Management – keep on doing what you are doing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McNeil Consumer Healthcare as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Great cafeteria, good work environment. There was a lot of good people with good values around. Corporate discounts on J&J products.

Cons – 2010 was a challenging year for McNeil. There were some issues with production and some outdated quality systems which led to tough financial times for the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Update your business practice to the appropriate levels, come back strong with great products and a good PR campaign with good advertising.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McNeil Consumer Healthcare as an intern for less than a year

Pros – People were friendly and helpful.
Work was challenging but never too hard.
Work was dynamic, not always doing the same thing.
Got and FLDP offer.

Cons – Company is cutting jobs due to recalls.
Recalls presented challenges in financials.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at McNeil Consumer Healthcare as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Leadership is transparent about the state of the business. Management has many official development plans to ensure fairness in evaluation of work.

Cons – J&J prides itself on its brands, even though the Consumer brands are worthless with no differentiation from private label. The company allocates no money to Consumer. The factories are disgusting with little quality assurance, resulting in the recalls. Marketers have huge egos yet pride themselves on the amazing "people" at J&J. These people have problems spelling out when there's a problem and are awful at giving feedback (i.e., they don't provide any). They hate employees who like to challenge the norm.
Awful work/life balance -- marketers often work 8am-7pm.
The business is going down as a result of the product supply issues, and there's no recovery in sight.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize strong workers instead of kiss-ups.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McNeil Consumer Healthcare full-time

Pros – Decent pay and benefits. Opportunities to learn from people from all over pharma, who have come in for the Consent Decree.

Cons – The company is fracture between base business and consent decree. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. People are either overloaded or twiddling their thumbs, and management can't see the difference. My particular boss is a nightmare - senior management and HR know about it, and won't take action. I will be leaving soon, as this company is making decisions that are risking its future.

Advice to Senior Management – Gain better alignment across the VPs. Change managers when they clearly are having a negative effect on their areas, as evidenced by repeated departures. Focus on building a solid system, rather than on changing the templates for the Consent Decree documentation yet again.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McNeil Consumer Healthcare full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great pay and benefits, great name for resume. The MBA programs are well-run

Cons – J&J did not roll with the challenges posed by the economy in 2009 as well as I would have hoped. While the MBA recruitment and subsequent placement/programming is very good, the development programs for those new recruits coming straight out of college lack training, oversight, and mentoring.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to the skills each member of the team brings to the table so you can utilize all of your advantages.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Pros – -On-site gym and daycare.
-Generally strong camraderie among peers
-Strong Management support of work/life balance, flex time, work from home.

Cons – -Highly matrixed structure has led to a bureaucratic environment that is endlessly frustrating. It is often difficult to complete even simple tasks.
-Very few internal promotions within recent years.
-Employees are constantly asked to do more with less. Days are long and exhausting, and often thankless.

Advice to Senior Management – Revert to a more simplified organizational structure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Pros – I like working here good place, good salary, the culture is a little too soft but overall great place to work for

Cons – Management needed to be more open to employees suggestions it's a big company so it's hard for the little guy to be heard.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more receptive to your employees and their suggestions also create more centralized structure use the full strength of Johnson & Johnson .

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Pros – At Mcneil the employees are friendly and family oriented... Everyone is welcomed with open arms. I liked the fact that the dress code is business casual.

Cons – employees seemed to be a bit gossipy at times.. employee reviews to interns sometimes aren't fair and too harsh for an intern who is only there for 10 weeks.

Advice to Senior Management – Make the intern program as important as the co-op program. try to extend the intern program to more than 10-12 weeks.

Current Employee – been working at McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Pros – - team environment
- great people to work with
- good benefits

Cons – - work life balance is not often there
- can take a long time to advance
- under resource teams

Advice to Senior Management – - take the time to talk to your employees on how they are feeling with their workload

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend