Big company, but in reality, a collection of separate franchises - Biostatistician Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
May 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Overall work & life balance may be good. However, I think that almost all the big healthcare companies are good at work & life balance, so I cannot see a particular benefit for this.

Cons

- JnJ has a Pension Plan with a vesting period of 5 years. This is certainly good for old people who wish to stay and retire at JnJ. However, this is also one thing that makes young talent leave after a year, causing a high turnover rate. Also, due to the pension plan, the base salary is relatively lower than other competitors. - JnJ is a big company. However, it is a collection of separate franchises. (So many franchises...) And each franchise has its own hierarchy. Therefore, although JnJ is a big company, when it comes to the real work at JnJ, it is like a start-up. Many layoffs and politics exist if you joined the wrong franchise.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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