3M FAQ

Pros

Great coworkers, great benefits package, flexible, remote work options.

Cons

Healthcare leadership in the US is only focused on acquisition employees, structure does not allow for success. Employees are not empowered to make decisions. Too many micromanagers that do not trust employees or other departments to perform their assigned roles

Advice to Management

For the VPs start making decisions instead of leading by consensus. For directors start listening and trusting your peers and employees.

Pros

Very stable company with nice & modern offices and great benefits. Coworkers are super friendly. Nice cafeterias and they also have food trucks that come several times a week. As long as you do a good job they will never let you go. A lot of the awesome people that works here have been with the company for decades.

Cons

Lacks organization, projects are poorly planned and you spend so much time doing redundant tasks during execution and even more time fixing the results afterwards. Very stingy, no free coffee or cups, you barely get water and the machines are always broken. The company store sells very old merchandise at small discounts that you end up throwing away because it no longer works.

Pros

Good PTO, good pay, good 401k, dental and insurance plans

Cons

Not easy to move up, lack of communication, inconsistent OT, and always doing construction/rework

Advice to Management

Improve communication throughout plant, standardize every department, and incentives for employees

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, good work life balance

Cons

Lack of training, advancement opportunities

Advice to Management

Screen your HR employees thoroughly

Pros

Getting the brand name on your resume. Pay and benefits seem relatively competitive. Some really great people.

Cons

Slow moving, bureaucratic, and nearly entirely driven by internal political games. The majority of management within 3M is made up of "lifers" who have been here for upwards of 30 years, most riding out a pension, who are unwilling to let go of outdated and ineffective methods of operating. It is next to impossible to get up to speed quickly as a new employee at 3M due to the sheer size and the disorganized complexity that is the organizational structure. Unless you get lucky enough to know someone who knows someone, you'll never be able to get what you need to do your role successfuly day to day. Transparency is entirely absent, critical decisions are consistently made behind closed doors leaving out any opportunity for feedback from vested parties who will end up being affected. Lack of communication is rampant and results in constant project delays, scope misalignment, and a persistent lack of trust between employees and their chain of management. Effective prioritization and project managment is nowhere to be found. Prioritization does not seem to be taken seriously and is completely devoid of reason, priorities are changing so often and so inconsistely nothing can ever be fully accomplished. Every shift happens at break neck speed and is always something reactionary to achieve short term goals, and never proactively looking at what long term consequences they will have to the business. To say 3M is practing Agile in any meaning of the word is comical. Top talent is being hemorrhaged left and right and it's only getting worse as time goes on. This is creating a snowball effect that is causing remaining employees toughing it out to be overburdened without any type of acknowledgment or assistance in terms of compensation or additional resources. Burn out can be seen at every turn and I fear what that will mean long term for the health of the business.

Advice to Management

Please take this honest feedback to heart and do what you can to drive change from within. As countless other reviews have stated, trust in your employees, listen your employees, and know that even though this may seem harsh many of us truly want to help 3M suceed. We are not given the proper outlets to express these types of concerns, you're not going to hear this type of feedback when it's being cycled through layers upon layers of middle managers. The unfortunate reality is, without anonymity, you will never get the feedback you really need to hear to succeed.