Pros
- Great first company to work for if you can land an entry level job - Pay is pretty much industry standard, won't go above and beyond - Great Training - Benefits are pretty nice too. Get free contact lens - Access to a lot of sites across the company and nice for marketing
Cons
- For such a big conglomerate, J&J is an incredibly cheap company. Don't expect big budgets or big investments for game changing technology. The company in medical device runs extremely lean. - Everything is outsourced: R&D, Manufacturing. It's extremely frustrating as an engineer. - J&J is where innovation goes to die. If you want to innovate and design cool stuff, J&J is not the place for you. There is so much red tape and stuff out of your control that it's extremely frustrating to try and do your job well - Quick Promotion path is only for a special group of people. Very hard as a lower level engineer to get promoted. - Problem with J&J is that it cares more about "optics", the appearance of solving a problem and how the company is perceived then actually fixing any root issue. - I was shocked how little control that the Managers, Directors and VP have in terms of direction. Everything is dictated by the guy at the top Shlomi.