Bureaucratic and Insular - Marketing 3M Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stability - large company, good benefits, good pay

Cons

If you didn't start out after school at 3M, don't expect to ever be a full fledged "3Mer". Outsiders are looked at skeptically. Extraordinarily bureaucratic, arrogant, insular culture "we've been successful for 100 years why would change?" except market share in certain businesses continues to erode.

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Cons

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