3M reviews

Senior employees are "conveniently" weeded out in favor of younger, less costly to keep employees. Nepotism and buddy systems are blatant: friends and family are mentored and promoted over "not connected" qualified candidates. Employee job performance feedback is ineffective - subjective with quotas on how many can receive higher grades (often reserved for those on the "fastrack", regardless of ability). Programs are implemented without good planning or reason just to show that management is "doing something".

I'm not certain that they care about their employees and their relations with their employees. Rather than being straightforward with decisions or showing confidence with decisions, they wait until the last minute to make decisions. The true test of how great a company is to work for is how they treat their employees in downturns. 3M is not demonstrating to me that its a company I will want to stay with for my career.