Johnson & Johnson reviews

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.

Current management has departed significantly from the Credo tradition especially in its treatment of employees; morale is suffering; performance is deteriorating especially in the pharmaceutical sector. Human Resources is in disarray. Lack of internal research and development capability; company tends to focus on acquisition rather than strategic partnership. A Darwinian approach to employees and career development is leading to a loss of key talent.