Does 3M pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, 3M employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at 3M. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at 3M?

66% of 3M employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated 3M 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at 3M?

Sales Representative (139) , Estagiário (122) , Engineer (96) , Manager (96) , Supply Chain Analyst (95) , Machine Operator (75) , Customer Service Representative (66) , Production Operator (66) , Intern (65) , Technical Aide (65) , Marketing (60) , Software Engineer (58) , Sales (57) , Manufacturing Engineer (53) , Analyst (50)

What are the pros of working at 3M according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits are changing and while not as good as they once were they are still not bad." ((in 636 reviews)); "The people are great and supportive" ((in 436 reviews)); "The pay is good and the work great." ((in 406 reviews)); "They have a lot focused groups and activities which shows how inclusive and great their culture are" ((in 301 reviews)); "Good work life balance.Reputed brand and respected company" ((in 243 reviews))

What are the cons of working at 3M according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management waiting for redundancies" ((in 251 reviews)); "There are frequent layoffs and all employees live in fear of the next round." ((in 92 reviews)); "Can be horrible if your suck under a bad manager." ((in 78 reviews)); "Poor leadership; resting on old innovation laurels; unfavorable workplace if coming from another company" ((in 73 reviews)); "No work life balance and poor upper management" ((in 63 reviews))

What are employees saying about 3M layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about 3M layoffs and their outlook for job security at 3M in 2026.

3M reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(5,860 total reviews)

William M. Brown

48% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

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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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6K reviews

1.0

Jun 29, 2015

3m HIS== Awful

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Paychecks Occurred. Fun to work along with so many women coders for a change.

Cons

They do not know how to run a software company. No working from home, extra hours expected always, tense working environment every day. Management is ex-military style, they do not care about you. Everything is CYA. No time or room for innovation. Worst "software" company I ever worked for. Idiots micro-managing professionals. Constant fire-fight because they will not invest to get things done right and within reasonable time frames. Biggest tight wad / penny pinchers I've ever seen. Only get paid once a month!

2.0

Mar 16, 2015

Disappointed in my choice to move.

Technical support analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I like some of the people I work with.

Cons

Middle management is incompetent. They don't know anything about the software we are supporting, therefore they have unrealistic expectations of results.

3.0

Mar 7, 2024

Tough place to be

Product engineer specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary, decent benefits and flexibility on Work Your Way

Cons

No stability, waiting for the next round of layoffs when we haven't recovered from the last round. So many job eliminations and the directive to work more quickly without having the people to do the work. It's frustrating.

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