FMCG giant - red tapes & politics - Senior Finance Analyst Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

3.0
20 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Good culture - The Credo 2. New HQ with innovation workspace - free seating and work from home 3. Flexible working hours (but depend upon your alignment with your manager) 4. Office gym - free usage throughout the day til 8pm 5. Staff shops with prices cheaper than outside retail 6. Plenty of training opportunities (if your manager approve it) 7. Internal rotations within the company, across functions and departments (if your manager approve it)

Cons

1. Although good culture, but many of the managers are not trained in it, especially those joined from other companies or transferred from other countries with hierarchical business culture. 2. Flexible depend on your manager - so if your manager has a culture that is micro manager, you have to sit nearby your manager or where your manager can see that you are in the office - which defeats the whole idea of the innovation workspace. 3. Plenty of red tape to get things done and politics play at Directors level, which made it pretty tough to get things done 4. Plenty of reports and systems to reconcile 5. It is complex matrix organization that can be overwhelming for newbies 6. HR & IT like not existing since it goes to shared services

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Cons

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3.0
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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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