Once proactive, now reactive. - Marketing 3M Employee Review

3.0
Feb 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global company with many opportunities in a variety of career options and locations. Wonderful products and many great, hardworking people still work there. Compensation and benefits are competive. Overall, conservative with expenses.

Cons

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".

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Dec 11, 2025
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Pros

Work for what you get. Rewarding work and great management structure

Cons

Management can be vague sometimes

3.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company investing in new products and higher growth markets

Cons

Over the past five years, there has been a significant decline in employee loyalty and incentive programs. Equity compensation, such as stock options and RSUs, was previously accessible to mid-level managers but is now strictly reserved for directors and above, reducing long-term incentives for a large portion of the workforce. Additionally, an increase in micromanagement and administrative red tape—particularly regarding strict scrutiny on all spending—has hindered productivity. The frequent practice of cutting budgets to meet short-term quarterly Operating Income (OI) targets is ultimately compromising our long-term revenue growth.

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