Good company, but too focused on younger employees - Anonymous employee 3M Employee Review

3.0
Feb 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay structure, vacation time earned by years of service. Flexible work hours, great benefits: employee discount programs, 401K, medical insurance, dental, vision. etc.

Cons

Work at home is offered, but people that use it are treated negatively. Unfortunately, "butts in seats" is current preference for management. Take a lesson from companies that have employees that really work remotely (IBM, Apple, etc.). Very limited opportunities in Austin for advancement. Too many layoffs in Austin has created extremely bad morale and constantly scared employees. Fear does not create an innovative workplace... Focus of management is retaining younger employees and lay offs of older seasoned workers is commonplace. Performance review structure is archaeic and can be extremely biased.

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Cons

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1.0
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Cons

The IT org is constantly going through layoffs. The work is going to managed service providers in India. The whole process is clown shoes. They are letting people go that have been here for 20+ years that have so much knowledge and expect to transfer it over to workers who are extremely siloed, who might not even be around in 6 months(the retention rate for this particular MSP is abysmal). These workers are not even dedicated to 3M, they have many other projects. I’m concerned for 3M’s IT future. Walking over dollars to pick up pennies

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