3M reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(5,850 total reviews)
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William M. Brown

51% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,850 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
Apr 15, 2022

working at 3M

Recommend
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Pros

Good people, exciting technologies, opportunity to partner with numerous businesses and functional groups

Cons

Culture eroding, continuous roll-ups of financials and powerpoint slides that create minimal value, organizational model with confusing overlap

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3M Response
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Hello, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review as a current employee. We greatly appreciate your feedback as a Senior Finance Manager. I see you are concerned with company aspects such as culture, organization, and value perspectives. I would strongly encourage you to speak with your direct supervisor and/or HR to discuss your concerns if you haven't already.
2.0
Apr 9, 2022

Marketers - avoid at all costs

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Pros

Good company welfare and good culture. Peer Recognition system is good. Many training courses/sessions to attend. Strong engineering company.

Cons

Poor leadership and poor execution. Current marketing setup doesn’t make sense as marketing team doesn’t have any say in campaigns at all. Budgets + strategy are determined by business and marketing leads are really project/campaign managers to ensure campaigns get launched. No opportunity for any inputs/value adds because that’s how the setup is intended to be. Marketing skills needed is minimal since the role is like a middle man of sorts. More importantly, leadership of marketing at regional level needs to be reviewed. Under the new org, new management doesn’t really care about marketing, seems like their lowest priority amidst other issues. Upper Leadership doesn’t care (or maybe doesn’t know/unaware of issues), middle level managers always have many reasons/excuses for why things are the way it is. Hence not much change going around, all talk but no action and this is very disappointing & frustrating for marketers. No one is held accountable for poor campaign performance/execution in the org sadly. Inputs given from ground level usually falls on dead ears or not acted upon - shoes that management is doing things for the sake of doing but not genuine at all. Company is also very Process oriented and not agile to market. Will not recommend any marketers to join unless you would like to be a project manager.

4.0
Apr 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Solid company for a broad starting experience base. Nothing about the company screams excitement, but it is definitely a solid place to be a part of and stay at. For the practical purpose of generating income and experience, 3M does the job. But the overall culture and drive is less felt company-wide and more dependent on the specific division and group.

Cons

2 weeks vacation time to start, only increasing to 3 weeks after 4 years of employment. 3M is known for it’s nepotism.

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