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      3M reviews

      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (5,847 total reviews)
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      William M. Brown

      51% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,847 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
      Apr 26, 2013

      When will the leaders learn to operate the company without extraordinary measures?

      Laboratory management
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people are the best in the world. We continue to be a great company, not because of company loyalty, but because of personal commitments to great coworkers.

      Cons

      While delivering strong results to Wall Street, 3M is only able to achieve them by complete travel bans, hiring freezes and 2% salary increases. Executives continue to keep the company jets in the air, and when they have to fly commercial, always sit in first class. Their income keeps increasing, especially as they execute multimillion dollar stock options. They stay cloistered on their mahogany floors and don't see that the rest of the physical plant has deteriorated as the maintenance budgets are squeezed like everything else.

      3.0
      Aug 15, 2012

      A good place to grow old

      Business development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very social attitude towards employees and work-life balance resulting in low employee turnover rates. Very strict business ethics and culture of respect and tolerance for diversity as well as high sense for environmental responsibility. Many different work opportunities within the same company. Excellent reputation for high quality products and innovativeness. Stable business growth creating secure work places.

      Cons

      Extremely complex matrix organisation structure with chronically underressourced teams that are supposed to achieve outstanding reasults by coincidence. Very poorly designe structures for customer-facing and external business subserving tasks. Far too much administration and formalized processes creating internal friction and reducing time and energy for more meaningfull external and customer-oriented work. Too many initiatives and programms that seem to serve more as career boosters for the individuals who introduce them instead of making real positive impact on business results and culture. Filling of higher level job grades very intransparent. Latent attitude of risk-aversity. Little possibility to develop fast for real talent.

      1.0
      Feb 15, 2012

      Worse place in America to work!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      They HAD good benefits Flex time work from home

      Cons

      Environment ol' "Boys club" mentality Archaic processes They promote incompetence employees are not valued Management threatens employees

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