3M reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(5,860 total reviews)
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William M. Brown

48% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,860 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 3M employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Apr 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Historically a great company to work for. Good culture, and 3M prides itself in being an "ethical" company. It used to be very stable, with decent work-life balance. Lots of great employee resources, training courses and development opportunities. Huge scale and room to grow and move around in your career. Much of this remains true, but recent changes have moved things in a negative direction, with little hope of recovery any time soon.

Cons

Leadership things re-org-ing is the solution to everything. So tone deaf to reality and the high mental health cost. I thought I was a valued employee, but the latest changes were dehumanizing and made me feel like a cog in the machine. Jobs were cut so recklessly that our division is barely functional anymore.

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Hello, Thank you for sharing your feedback on your recent experience. We would like to encourage you to also bring your concerns to your supervisor and/or HR. We are glad you have found there are lots of great opportunities for development at 3M!
1.0
Sep 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you don't have any relevant background particularly in digital, don't worry. 3M doesn't have the management with an adequate understanding of the requisite skill set to be able to tell.

Cons

Incompetent management at all levels within corporate marketing. New leadership in April announced that 3M is now a "digital company" in the same way that Google is a digital company without any change to organizational structure or staffing. The entire digital "strategy" can be summed up by endless repetition by management of the words "agile," "SEO," and "governance." There is no understanding of what those words mean or how they would be relevant for a large manufacturing company with a massive unnavigable catalog-based website. Even within 3M, the website is viewed as a joke and instead of hiring digital professionals to fix it, boomer-aged engineers are shifted sideways into leadership roles where they (unsuccessfully) guess at how the internet works and refuse to listen to anyone that tells them otherwise. Any attempts at education are a waste of breath as the entire entire corporate structure is dead weight that know they won't be fired as there is zero accountability. Anyone who has been around for more than 2 years has given up even attempting to accomplish anything useful and only compound the problem. - Don't even get me started on how employees are forced to wash their dishes in the bathroom.

1.0
May 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good brand and reputation. High accountability and metrics driven,

Cons

Unfriendly to women in business. Little leadership development. Not conducive to growth and development - unless you're in the good old boy network. The good old boy network is exceptionally prevalent at 3M. Heavy backstabbing, passive aggression and blaming culture. No work/life balance.

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