Good company with room to improve. - Supply Chain Analyst 3M Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

3M offers decent pay and benefits. If you are a good performer they typically reward you with promotions and/or larger than average raises. They are willing to let you try and find better ways of doing things...but actually implementing them can be a different story.

Cons

Beauracracy. Layoffs seem to target workers, not managers, especially in IT. It seems as though valuable IT resources are lost frequently, while the managers they reported to maintain their position without taking over the past responsibilities. The pace of change crawls, especially for IT systems. Some of the systems we have to use seem to have been modern in1975.

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Pros

Work for what you get. Rewarding work and great management structure

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Company investing in new products and higher growth markets

Cons

Over the past five years, there has been a significant decline in employee loyalty and incentive programs. Equity compensation, such as stock options and RSUs, was previously accessible to mid-level managers but is now strictly reserved for directors and above, reducing long-term incentives for a large portion of the workforce. Additionally, an increase in micromanagement and administrative red tape—particularly regarding strict scrutiny on all spending—has hindered productivity. The frequent practice of cutting budgets to meet short-term quarterly Operating Income (OI) targets is ultimately compromising our long-term revenue growth.

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