Mid Career, Stay Away - Manager Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

1.0
4 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place for interns, co-ops, college hires to start out. Lots of software tools and opportunities to over-analyze. Nice facilities, Great benefits. Generally good people to work with, and some great people.

Cons

If you are mid-career, you'll likely have a lot less responsibility than you are used to. There are numerous teams doing essentially the same thing; Matrix management on steroids. Easy to raise ideas - hard to get them through the hoops and various stakeholders. Large projects sold as innovation-centric were completed at other companies decades ago. Over-used buzzwords galore. Internal management with no experience outside of JNJ resist external hires and ideas, protecting their own clic, rotating from role to role. If you are a manager- stay away from CLS. As a now former investor, I was very disappointed in JNJ's inner workings.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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