Stay away from any of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies. They are famous for having huge expansions only to lay people off 18 months later due to products that were never laughched and they hired folks to early, patent expirations, product failures and lawsuits.
You will NEVER feel secure with this company. They will give you a line of crap about living the "credo" but it's all words! Ask ANY J&J employee. They will tell you the same.
When the company decides to downsize you will never know what the criteria was. High performers losr their jobs! How is this possible?
It's like playing a game of musical chairs...constant mergers and aquisitions, realighments, re-deployments, New commercial model...or whatever the buzz phrase is for that particular year.
While youi are playing this game of musical chairs 12 of you will be circleing around 8 chairs. In the end....ypu just hope that you are able to grab a seat when the music stops.
I left that crap hole on my terms! Landed a device gig...higher base, higher bonus, still get the car and expenses, amanager that doesn't ride with me every 4 weeks (although I didn't care about that.) You're not collecting signatures, time stamped calls, reach and frequency, "the core message"....Roll-Play and all that happy horse shit.
The pharma world is like a cult! Although layoffs are happeneing all the time the District managers, Region business Directors and field sales directors do not want this to happen.
As more sales jobs are lost the funnel keeps getting smaller to keep all these DM's and above employed. That being said, everyone tried to keep their mouths shut to hang on a little longer.
Stay a way from J&J. They will tell you that you are "the elite"// "the brightest and the best"
Don't fall for the bull. Leaving that company was the happiest day of my life! What's better?
I walk away with a pension benefit for life!
Rock on!