Office Politics Abound - Anonymous employee Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

2.0
Feb 4, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits Pays well Hot-desking Work from home possible

Cons

The epitome of office politics. If you play politics well, you will thrive. If you detest office politics, don't think about joining - you'll drown. If you're happy keeping your head down and working years without much upward movement, you'd be OK. If you play your cards well though, you'd be promoted really quickly. No proper onboarding system. You're essentially thrown into the deep end of the pool and expected to swim - figure everything out on your own. Matrix system. Expect an insane number of stakeholders in every project - you'd need everyone's buy-in and please everyone. This makes things move incredibly slowly. Everyone wants to shine so everyone wants to start their own project. This leads to a mess of multiple meetings and projects that overlaps (and you start to wonder about the purpose of it all). 90% of my time sometimes an entire day is spent in meetings and telcons. You work in teams but beware. No one will give you credit for your ideas and your creation. People WILL take credit for your work. Don't expect recognition for your contribution. This in particular disgusted me. At the end of the day, NO amount of MONEY OR BENEFITS makes up for all these.

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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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