Johnson & Johnson Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"The compensation and benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Inquire about their turnover rate!"

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"The never ending turmoil due to constant changes in direction and management leading to round after round of lay offs. The lack of any sort of stability is devastating for morale."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"After evaluating the situation, choose a strategy and stick with it for a year or longer to give it a chance."

"DePuy Spine is an excellent company with a professional milieu."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Worked as a consultant. Given all the room I needed to develop and present a curriculum for workers who were very new to computer and many of whom did not speak English as the primary language--some not at all."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Prepare well; these people know their company and are very dedicated to it."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"I I found my time consulting there pleasant, welcoming, and professional."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest that training be seen as a crucial part of the company's growth and that the person in charge of training programs be exceptionally qualified in that position."

"Johnson & Johnson was an excellent company for employment, which promoted growth and a self development."

"Important work, but unbalanced sharing of perks and rewards."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"J&J is a solid company with an excellent (well-deserved) reputation. They understand that life does not start and end at their door, and actually take the commitment to their employees seriously. The people care about their customers (i.e., sick people) and generally behave in an ethical way. Further, the products being developed have a meaningful and beneficial impact on the lives of real people."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"In the group I was in, I found the culture incredibly clubby and provincial. A high number of European expats, who favored one another in plum assignments, promotional opportunities, and recognition, led to an us/them problem. People get pigeon holed easily, and there is plainly a two-class system. The top tier basically travel, go to conferences, run their mouths, and generally do little or no actual work. The second tier stay in the office and do the work, frequently with little thanks from their peers. And the talkers are the ones who get the promotions and perks."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would recommend to change the obvious work horse/show horse culture, or after enough time, the capable people who provide the actual work will leave, and nothing will remain besides the Potemkin workforce who know how to make travel reservations, but not much else."

"Good company to work for."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Good people to interact with."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Conflicting directives from management of Noramco and J&J."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get on one page between directives that come down from J&J and local."

"Although I made award-winning sales, I most enjoy working closely with regional and national thought leaders to influence local prescribing habits."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Good benefits, base salary, commission and most people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"This particular J&J subsidiary (Ortho-McNeil Neurologics) dissolved the field sales force. Recommend applying for J&J position in general."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Focus was more on the metrics than on building long term relationships."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Let employees do what works with their customers instead of regimenting something that worked in NJ to be uniformly practiced everywhere."

"Big."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Big company, had the money to spend if the project was right."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"None, it was pretty cool."

"Not a place for innovators, but an enjoyable place to work."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Relaxed environment, enjoyable coworkers, generally enjoyable management. There really isn't too much backstabbing that I've experienced here, or catty/overly gossipy co-workers, which is nice. While most of the assignments I worked on where not too challenging intellectually, I've had a lot of experience and practice staying focused on monotonous and repetitive assignments. This isn't an overly competitive workplace as I've experienced it. Contractors are also treated pretty nicely here, and often do the same jobs as direct hires with little difference in many cases."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Company website is good, the IFU's (instructions for use) under clinical laboratory tech documents has info on every assay the company markets. There is a blurb at the beginning of each document stating what each assay is for and what it's used to diagnose. Good knowledge to have if you're interviewing in sales, R&D, or something product related. Microtips, Microslides, and Microwells (as well as the analyzers that use them) are the main products the company supports itself on."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"People are sometimes hired to do somewhat mindless jobs (but are usually paid well to do them to be fair). The majority of data analysis for FDA submissions is typically done in Excel, but few people seem to have much knowledge in programming, Visual Basic or automation within Excel. So a great deal of time is spent doing simple repetitive tasks that could be automated (copy and pasting, format changes, etc.) Even some senior personnel sometimes have limited knowledge regarding aspects of ongoing tests, so it is not uncommon to have to track down multiple people involved in the same test before finding the one who can answer your question. The company doesn't seem to have a very strong desire to find the best people for particular jobs within its ranks. Senior members don't seem to have to worry too much about ambitious juniors, and there doesn't appear to be very much movement within the ranks."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There is a very hierarchical structure here where people sometimes try to horde personnel or resources as a matter of status or importance. There is some wasted talent as personnel are occasionally hired to do jobs that occupy a limited segment of their skill set, or require a limited segment of their workday. Train people to do multiple jobs, and shift the workpool when departmental needs dictate it. I thought it was wasteful to fill every position for peak workload conditions."

"Great company to make an impact."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Opportunity to make a difference."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Long hours."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better balance and investment in accounting systems."

"Great company to work for."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Great managers who were open to change and new ideas to better their working environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself and be prepared for success."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Not much to not like. I enjoyed my experience there for a year and that would be the only thing I did not like... having to end my contract."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep on doing a great job!"

"Extraordinary professional experience."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Work closely with brand strategies, advertising agency, launch of new products, promotions, business plan, travel to make presentations and take trainings, etc."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Go ahead! Because the experience to learn and prepare to grow in the professional area is priceless."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Knowing that my opportunity to work with J&J was only for 6 months (temporary position)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"More emphasis in advertising efforts."

"I had a positive experience at Ortho McNeil and still take pride in the products that I represented."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"I was a lead antibiotic representative. I was also a field trainer for product knowledge and a pilot team member for the computer system. I was given many additional responsibilities that kept my skills sharp including interviewing candidates at job fairs and universities, market research, training, sales aid development, and many others. The company was able to recognize my abilities and leveraged them for the good of both of us. I was never bored and they got more than they paid for."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have strong science knowledge and the ability to learn new information quickly."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"There were very few field promotions that did not include relocation to the home office in New Jersey. Their leadership development path was redundant to those of us who had already held the position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize the skills that the employee has and the positions that they have already successfully held, and don't make them take classes or do projects just to check a box in the developmental process before you consider them for promoted positions."

"Great company."

"Hospital representative in Manhattan New York selling pharmaceutical/biotech products to institutions."

What do you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Small company environment with a big company to back you up."

What don't you like about working at Johnson & Johnson?

"Small increases in base salaries every year, capped commissions."

"Do not work for the IT Department."