3M reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,837 total reviews)
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William M. Brown

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 Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
3.0
Aug 15, 2012
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.

4.0
Feb 5, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

To be in contact with customers and colleagues all around the world makes it be very interesting to work here. 3M is very social and meets the staff according to certain criteria.

Cons

The Management has a cost-phobia, even if the costs would be painful for one month and bring profit for years.

4.0
Apr 9, 2026

R&D

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-life balance, multiple opportunities for career development

Cons

bureaucracy, slow company growth, poor communication with employees

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