3M reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(5,840 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,840 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
1.0
May 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great intranet resources. Great Six Sigma training program Great place to improve political skill set Great place to learn how to polish shoes of the top management Great place to learn for stepping stone purpose.

Cons

Only those with great polishing skills will be in the good books of the top management. Red tape approval on simpliest consumer promotion acivities. Terrible place to work for those with FMCG experience. YOu will loose your FMCG skill sets. Penny wise Pound foolish investment strategy. 3M finds reasons to make you redundant or terminate you once you are not in their good books. Consumer group employee average tenure is 6 months to 1 year before they leave the company or gets booted out of the company. 3M terminates your service when economic downturn comes around. Every single downturn they have terminated people.

3.0
May 11, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are working as a full-timer, it might not be a bad place to work in terms of job security.

Cons

I haven't seen much of challenge in terms of professional development. There is lots of political bickering going on too.

2.0
May 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, location, environment, interesting and challenging work. Many wonderful people to work with.

Cons

Incompetent and unqualified management, nepotism, the cousin of the manger that brought her in the department secretly, got the job that I earned. When I brought up to the director the qualifications of my manager he said, "you tell anyone what happened to you and I will kick your ass." , while the HR manage sat next to me and said nothing. An upper level manager used the, "F", word to me twice in a meeting while my manager sat next to me and said nothing and when reported nothing was done about it and if you did that to a manager at 3M they would walk you out the door. People advanced not by their accomplishment or contributions but by who they sucked up to and that is the 3M way. Those envolved in nepotism should be fired no matter how long ago it happened. However, 3M management can't handle that problem either when nepotism is their fault it says on the application, "do you have any relatives that work here.", and 3M let her come in the department and move ahead. She advanced three job classes in a year and a half and is there a red flag there?

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