Is it the company or the industry? The wrong adjustments will ruin both. - Pharmaceutical Sales Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
Apr 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Until recently the company was relatily stable. They say the opportunity to grow is endless which is true within the whole range of the company. Decent benefits are there and they often have good products to sell. At the time, the micromanagement was not too severe compared to other big pharma and they were usually leading the ethical front on pharma sales, at least as much as possible but this can often become a detriment as often interpretation was not on a level playing field. Too conservative can project a sense of they really care but also relaying too much information that is not relavent sets the tone for faliure.

Cons

No reality of proper territories. Someone in NJ is identifying terriories on volume where the lack of understanding the actual geography creates a large disadvantage to success more than having less volume than the next territory. Unrealistic splits of geography seems to be performed without using common sense or by anyon with any realistic experience in the field. Being PC is good in theory but too PC becomes the opposite and discriminates more than if not inplace at all. Zero consistency in the messageing. One week it is one thing, then 2 months later the message is completly the opposite and counterproductive of previous messaging.

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Cons

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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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