A bit antiquated. - Anonymous employee 3M Employee Review

2.0
16 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Met a few nice people along the way.

Cons

Felt stuck in the late 80s, early 90s business atmosphere. Sales meetings the equivalent of watching on YouTube "windows 95 launch" by Microsoft. Old business people talking about collaboration, while VP's host dinner events where they sit in the corner, only talking to people who's job is to tell them how great they are, while they play on their phone. Next, they stand up and work the room as if they were Tony Robbins himself, while pumping up "thier" employees about "collaboration", then back to their corner for more texting and the bestowing of praise from thier underlings. If the 3M medical experience could be summed up by some of the super lame business buzzwords you will hear, it would be "A synergistic, robust, collaboration of low hanging fruit, with very little bandwidth ". If you actually like to collaborate with a goal oriented group of people, this is not for you. If you enjoy having a plethora of talking boss chickens, clucking away, while bouncing off of each other to see who can get to that next promotion while stepping over their co-collaborators , this is what you've been looking for.

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Hello, Thank you for your review. We are very sorry to hear that you felt 3M was out of touch, and really appreciate you sharing your concerns with us.

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