Centrailization's impact on local decision making? - Anonymous employee Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
16 Jun 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Diversity of business and opportunities to move around and grow. Pockets of the old wonderful company exist, but things are changing at an incredible pace. I suspect that is the case at many places and J&J is simply following a larger overall trend. I'm not saying that J&J is not a good place to work, but comparatively speaking it's not the same place it was even 5 years ago.

Cons

Massive outsourcing far beyond what is practical, particularly IT, HR and Finance. IT decision making is largely limited to the CIO and her leadership team as opposed to a more decentralized model where local VPs had the ability to make the best decisions for the business they supported.

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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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