J&J, a great company to start with and stay if you fit in - Senior Engineer Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

4.0
Aug 19, 2008
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Pros

Very professional and ethical, better to fair compensation, J&J Reputation. J&J provides great training programs within company and outside. Six Sigma Training green belt and black belt trainings were the best. Each year, management encouraged to attend shows and seminars. Compensation were fair and competative in the industry. Management made effort to recognize employee with special awards and promotions to a degree. J&J has a very competent work force, which I only realized after changing to a different company.

Cons

Huge organization difficult to be noticed. Skillful political dealings are important if not the most important in getting ahead. Some divisions' management were inplace for a long time and forms a local culture that may be different from division to division. Actually, each division was acquired by J&J and was integrated into J&J family of companies, thus they all still have some of their own identity left. J&J more and more (at my experience) hires from outside instead promoting within. When it does, it tends to hire over-qualified people. If you are already a director, they offer you a manager title, even though the pay might be higher. But this creates a signal that people within will never get next level job (you should be a director first before you can get a manager title) Job pressure and stress can be high and some may not take it well.

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5.0
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Pros

Lots of travel and great support

Cons

Role tied in with sales so it can be unpredictable

3.0
Jun 16, 2026
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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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