3M Reviews

Pros

Smart people who are very dedicated to providing industry and consumers with excellent technological solutions. Kind work culture. Good work life balance.

Cons

Low diversity. Poor marketing skills thought organization. Lack of focus on business investments within divisions. Lack of understanding on how to grow a business (other than buying one, or throwing it out there with minimal support).

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more on marketing activities. Set realistic growth targets in mature businesses. Take a risk once in a while. Ufda.

Pros

- Wide variety of interesting products
- Comfortable work environment
- Nice campus with lots of amenities
- Respectable contributor to the community
- Full time employees seem quite satisfied; contractors are treated very well

Cons

- Parking can sometimes be nightmarish, especially if there is a training event
- The campus is quite large and finding a particular building can be tricky

Pros

This is a very large company, so if you're looking for a place to work long term with a lot of different opportunities, this is a great place to be. You do need to wait until people move to a different role or retire before getting opportunities for advancement though.

Cons

As a major company, it is very slow moving sometimes. Decisions that should take a few days can drag on into weeks and weeks at a time.

Pros

Great benefits and compensation. Great options to buy 3M stocks. Overall the company is good and if you get an opportunity to work at MN headquarters or bigger branch, it will be a great opportunity to work, learn and grow.

Cons

3M Northridge facility is smaller than their other locations with limited growth and very limited learning opportunity. Terrible management. Employees perform redundant jobs everyday with no motivation or encouragement.

Advice to Senior Management

Give opportunities to your employees to learn and grow.

Pros

-good pay
-tight community
-communication is good from managers

Cons

-contractors get the shaft
-advancing is challenging but rewarding
-bonus is based on performance

Pros

- Compensation is good for management level employees though a large chunk of pay is division performance based.
- Working at a factory will get you promoted and recognized quicker than working in corporate HQ.
- Great health, dental, and vision benefits. Good 401k. Stock purchase at discount.
- Performance feedback good (depends highly on your specific manager).

Cons

- Middle management tends to be smarter than senior management. Senior management known to make short-sided and poor decisions frequently.
- Older management team does not understand how to manage younger employees. This should change as older employees start to retire.
- Pay for junior employees not on par with pay for junior employees at comparable companies. Management and senior level employees get paid on par with peers at other comparable companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Start developing younger employees to take over management positions in the future. Your high performing younger (28-40 years old) employees are leaving because you are not developing them for management positions. Current managers will start to retire in large numbers in 4-6 years leaving you with few choices to replace them with.

Pros

Employees are given full credit to work independently; open dicussion within sales and marketing

Cons

Each division works so independently that senior manager cannot detect poor leardership from some mid-level managers

Advice to Senior Management

Do not pursue strategies just for short-term growth; Saving too much on marketing budget can damage brand equity

Pros

Nice atmosphear. Contact with multicultural colleagues. Better personal life balance than most of the competitors. Colleagues very accesible. Nice parking and restaurant.

Cons

Very poor career development. Don't expect high salaries after 10 years of experience. The Spanish organisation doesn't promote 3Mers working abroad. Bad relationship between Sales and Marketing.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide young 3Mers with better career planning. Challenge young people and provide them with responsibility and empowerment. Accept risk in order to discover new business models.

Pros

Good healthcare, but will be changing. Stable company, lots of opportunities to change jobs if needed. You can apply for many jobs across the company.

Cons

Not always a respectful work environment. Some employees are given preferential treatment based on their connections, which school they went to or who their relations are. If you go to HR with issues, be prepared to be put under a microscope by your manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Nepotism has to stop. Women and minorities are not treated well, Human Resources doesn't even follow their own principles.

Pros

Challenging work, in an ever changing business environment

Cons

Performance review is a forced distrbution.

Advice to Senior Management

revise approach to performance reviews