Tough learning curve in a clique-ish environment. - Non-Technical Role 3M Employee Review

2.0
22 Feb 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot, have the name of a big company on your resume.

Cons

Can't speak for the organization as a whole but I was in the consumer and office business and it consisted of a few unhappy individuals who were trying to outshine one another. Very political and as a result it facilitated a lot of gossip and a "happy" group of lower level staff because of certain common enemies. Co-workers on an individual and personal level are mostly super nice and sweet. It's only further up the food chain within the dpmt that claws start to show. Contributing factor is favoritism, though the manager is extremely defensive about this and denies it through and through. Finally, though it's 3M, it's managed very much like a local company with an inordinate amount of respect to the international counterparts, for no justifiable reason.

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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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