meh.... - Product Director Janssen Employee Review

-way too many people promoted due to 'extreme' networking and politics. Top performers as measured by value to organization, market, patients and doctors are nearly always overlooked for those that solely exist to network and self-promote. Sad really as the work and environment is good but the reality is promotions are doled out based on obscure and personal reasons much more than what would be considered normal. The fact that each year the departmental survey calls this out and there are 'teams' and meetings set up to fix this but this complaint still comes up annually is proof positive it's an endemic and cultural norm that is self-sustaining. Why are there no/extremely few marketing leaders from outside the Janssen bubble? This leads to less than critical thinking and too much self-indulging internally focused ideas at all levels of leadership, Relatedly talent is not managed and the default is to say the organization supports those that take time to network, but what's left out of the discussion is that these hyper-networkers let their teams, HCPs and patients down by their self-promotional efforts. The reality is the R&D work done decades ago creates the value, not the marketing at Janssen as the innovation in the marketing area is not as impactful as other organizations' marketing groups. Bring in a truly external leader to Janssen marketing, bring in a new consultant or organizational change agent. Examine what is needed to move forward to create a world class marketing organization such as P&G and other consumer companies and 'drain the swamp'.