Interviewed this week in Southeast:



Agreed. J&J says they want the best of the best but are they prepared to match our current benefits. If you want CV experience, thrombosis experience, afib launch expertise and a Rolodex full of customers then they will need to match/ exceed salaries and vacation.
2 weeks of vacation to reps with this experience is insulting on top of the fact that the drug has yet to be approved and will be second to market. Anyone with this experience will have 4 -5 weeks vacation. Pony up J&J or a whole bunch of us that you are courting will walk. To all those candidates in the pool hold steady and demand your 5 weeks. If we band together they will have to compromise otherwise we walk and they will hire all their second candidates resulting in a second rate launch, lack of experience, contacts and ultimately minimizing speed of impact. A pay for A play! Most of us want to make this move but the benefits have to be at a minimum equal.

Any new hire should be grateful for whatever vacation time and benefits J&J offers them in this economy.
 
Any new hire should be grateful for whatever vacation time and benefits J&J offers them in this economy.

When you are working at this level and high intensity, 3 weeks just doesn't cut it. In the end, the best companies to work for are the ones that truly get and understand the importance of work/life balance. They want senior experienced people, but yet unwilling to give more time off.
 
When you are working at this level and high intensity, 3 weeks just doesn't cut it. In the end, the best companies to work for are the ones that truly get and understand the importance of work/life balance. They want senior experienced people, but yet unwilling to give more time off.

"working at this level and high intensity"? I am sorry but are we talking about being a trauma surgeon or being a professional caterer/UPS delivery person wearing a suit?

You have a real set my friend.
 
Socialist!!!! we should be grateful. Let me kiss your ass and no I'll work sick and not care. blah blah blah. 3 weeks is the minumum any employee should get

Then start your own company, pay all your employees what they want, shower them with massive benefits and let them work whenever they want. Good luck with your business plan.
 
Any new hire should be grateful for whatever vacation time and benefits J&J offers them in this economy.

Your experience means sh*t. We had a new hire with several formulary wins in the first few weeks of launch. Go somewhere else where they care about your "experience" but don't care about results. Tenure just means that you have lived long enough to hang around and sell nothing.
 


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