3M Reviews

Pros

- Had chance to meet executives within the company
- Employee discount on 3M products
- Tours of plants and facilities available

Cons

- Male dominated
- Location of office
- Pigeon-holed
- People are homogenous
- Age and generation gap are large
- Very stuck in their traditional ways of thinking despite priding themselves in being innovative
- Poor feedback

Advice to Senior Management

Ask if your employees actually like what they are doing- listen to their voice.

Pros

Diversity of products and markets, great exposure. Ability to have multiple careers in a single company

Cons

Slow moving and bureaucratic. Lack of outside in thinking. "Minnesota Nice" keeps people from having difficult, honest decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Too bureaucratic...

Pros

Solid manufacturing facilities and product throughput

Cons

Limited personal development guideline for new employees

Pros

flexibility in scheduling, friendly coworkers, profit sharing, fair salary, company outings, great benefits and longevity with the company

Cons

politics, incompetence in upper management, lay offs, promotions only within ranks so no upward mobility for most analysts who are not already in management

Pros

Good work and life balance

Cons

Bureaucratic, low diversity, slow promotion rate

Pros

Good career opportunity
Learning exposure
Multinational company
Flexibility in managing your work

Cons

Being a contract staff from Kelly Services who does a very bad job managing our simple day to day requests. My contract had to be revised twice because they got my information wrong.

Advice to Senior Management

Hope to see more innovative management of company & staff

Pros

Diverse technologies applied to diverse markets
Focus on premium markets and high quality
Global markets and expanding market focus
Large company with opportunities to move around

Cons

Some businesses require much travel for performing job duties
Many long term employees; hard for new employees to stand out

Advice to Senior Management

Continue focus on new market areas and new geographies
Return to leader for valuing employees with leading recognition / benefit rewards

Pros

big company with lots of products

Cons

no chance for promotion if you are a US employee

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the customer

Pros

Diversity of products. Strong global presence. Ever growing and expanding.

Cons

Unless you work in research and development or manufacturing you will soon be out of a job. Warehousing and logistics operations by 3M are being phased out. 3PL companies are taking over logistics operations for 3M.

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of being so greedy with your multiple- billion dollar profits how about investing in your employees who actually move the product. Oh wait to late. You've already forgotten about those Americans.

Pros

solid systems and interaction between businesses

Cons

little upward mobility and serious micro-management