Where careers become stagnant - Anonymous employee 3M Employee Review

1.0
5 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

An org that is full of potential and opportunity. Strong brand equity and solid reputation. Educated and in some cases distinguished knowledge workers: corporate scientists, chemists, high profile executives. Long history and vast array of products. Solid compensation and benefits package.

Cons

Toxic organizational culture. Authority and order driven culture. Dated approach to diversity and inclusion. Immensely unhappy workforce. Complacent and apathetic tenured employees. Elitist and power hungry executive attitudes. Change and risk averse environment. Incredibly hierarchical, bureaucratic and formal. Stifling for creativity and innovation. Embarrassingly frequent misuse and waste of resources. Highly unethical and deceptive. Unable to retain millennial talent. Poor talent development opportunities at every level of the company. Pathologically political environment. Opportunistic and self-absorbed middle management. Overly siloed down to project teams within teams. Cronyism, nepotism, and favoritism. Fumbling, inconsistent approach to strategic planning. Best practice developed through confirmation bias. Many highly educated but poorly seasoned/experienced employees. Check-the-box, stale approach to work. Terrible communications company-wide.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Good pay and decent benefits.

Cons

Current management is completely disconnected from the needs and concerns of individual contributors. Which appears to be on purpose, as the company is in an active strategy of both strategic layoffs and of driving attrition in general, so everyone's stress levels are super high. The head of HR just quit so I can only assume worse labor actions are on their way. Also, be ready to not have a desk but still be required to come in 4 days a week.

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