3M reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,837 total reviews)
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55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,837 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 Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Aug 17, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of career opportunity, many people have had 10 or more unrelated jobs within the company

Cons

Good old boy mentality, it appears that if daddy worked here you are definately more likely to get promoted faster..... I guess this holds true in a lot of Fortune 500 companies

4.0
Aug 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

3M offers decent pay and benefits. If you are a good performer they typically reward you with promotions and/or larger than average raises. They are willing to let you try and find better ways of doing things...but actually implementing them can be a different story.

Cons

Beauracracy. Layoffs seem to target workers, not managers, especially in IT. It seems as though valuable IT resources are lost frequently, while the managers they reported to maintain their position without taking over the past responsibilities. The pace of change crawls, especially for IT systems. Some of the systems we have to use seem to have been modern in1975.

2.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and Benefits. Stable company.

Cons

Very poor Management - immature, male dominated (look at our corporate org chart). Management needs constant approval. They do not encourage thinking outside the box.

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