3M Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at 3M?

"Challenging work environment. Generally people you work with at your level are amiable. Good benefits & competitive salary."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't commit to hiring if you don't like where you're going to live."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"Politics are horrible. Managers have for the most part only been worried about their own skin or next career move. If you're not an engineer, you pretty much have no future unless you can navigate through coporate HQ. The company thinks Six-Sigma Black Belts are God's gift to the plants. Remember, crap rolls down hill."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Affirmative action means more turnover."

"The leadership team have ruined a good team. The HR Managers are the worst."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"The floor workers. They know more then the management team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Beware!!! Management team are very immature and play favorites. Good money though."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"The inexperienced and untrustworthy leadership team. You can't trust them to back up your decisions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to resign and think about pursuing more training if they want to be leaders."

"For anyone who is a serious marketer, run away from this company! Horrible!"

What do you like about working at 3M?

"3M has a lot of really nice people and work life balance is decent."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Basic behavioral interview, usually a cross functional interview. Prefer internal candidates."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"This company is absolutely HELL for marketers! The function is not respected or given the authority to make quality, adequate business decisions. The company is running blind!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Adequately resource the consumer businesses, especially with talent and ad/merch budgets to truly develop sought after brands."

"3M is one of the worst companies I've witnessed in my 25 year career. They have no business pretending to be innovators and in most of the spaces that they are in, especially in healthcare. Sr Management is clueless and care more about job hopping and waiting to get their fat pensions & stock prices up. Employees are lethargic and there is no core mission or direction, truly a rudderless ship. Sr Mgmt is incompetent, disorganized and only care about the 3m processes."

"They are doing fraud and not following US gov policy.. they care only about money not people health.."

"One of the best companies in America to work for."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"Large company with many career options and advancement opportunities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good luck."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"Red tape."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hang in there."

"Interesting organization."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"Great atmosphere with great people."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"Launch of a unique product without much internal support."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Refocus of internal support and structure."

"3MPO a great place to work!"

What do you like about working at 3M?

"I liked that I could go online and print my pay stub."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"That even after working for them for a year I did not get holiday pay."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To pay more than 9.50 an hr and to pay for holidays."

"Start up Touch Screen company that was great opportunity to work hard and take on more senior role."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"New challenges, hiring and managing sales force, working with investors, building a company."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"The hours were very, very long and the travel was extensive."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Company was acquired by 3M."

"Worked in clean-room environment making computer disk."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"The pay was way above average for the area."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Better love working indoors and production piece work."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"I did not like being in the clean-room environment, no windows, very dangerous chemicals."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This division sold and is now Imations."

"3M is a great company to work for."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"Nationwide contacts (no territory so to speak)."

What don't you like about working at 3M?

"Business model is still based in the 1950's."

What do you like about working at 3M?

"The challenging nature about maintaining machines that don't have manuals due to age and most were made in various countries."