Marketers - avoid at all costs - Marketing Executive 3M Employee Review

2.0
Apr 9, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good company welfare and good culture. Peer Recognition system is good. Many training courses/sessions to attend. Strong engineering company.

Cons

Poor leadership and poor execution. Current marketing setup doesn’t make sense as marketing team doesn’t have any say in campaigns at all. Budgets + strategy are determined by business and marketing leads are really project/campaign managers to ensure campaigns get launched. No opportunity for any inputs/value adds because that’s how the setup is intended to be. Marketing skills needed is minimal since the role is like a middle man of sorts. More importantly, leadership of marketing at regional level needs to be reviewed. Under the new org, new management doesn’t really care about marketing, seems like their lowest priority amidst other issues. Upper Leadership doesn’t care (or maybe doesn’t know/unaware of issues), middle level managers always have many reasons/excuses for why things are the way it is. Hence not much change going around, all talk but no action and this is very disappointing & frustrating for marketers. No one is held accountable for poor campaign performance/execution in the org sadly. Inputs given from ground level usually falls on dead ears or not acted upon - shoes that management is doing things for the sake of doing but not genuine at all. Company is also very Process oriented and not agile to market. Will not recommend any marketers to join unless you would like to be a project manager.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is genuinely competitive — one of the stronger-paying manufacturing roles you'll find in the area. Benefits package is comprehensive and well above average. The retirement account and stock options are a real standout, especially for a machine operator role; 3M clearly invests in its employees long-term. Day-to-day, the people on the floor make the job. Coworkers were hardworking and easy to get along with, which goes a long way in a production environment. Upper management is what you'd expect from a large corporation — a bit removed from the floor — but that's pretty standard for a company of that size, Not a deal breaker.

Cons

The shift schedule is rough. Rotating between 12-hour days and nights on a swing schedule sounds manageable on paper, but constantly flipping your sleep schedule takes a real toll over time. Work-life balance is difficult to maintain when your "days off" are often spent just recovering and readjusting, and you can easily miss out on normal life things — social plans, family time, errands — simply because your schedule doesn't line up with the rest of the world that week. Upper management can also be a friction point. When people who haven't touched the machines in years (or ever) come to the floor with strong opinions about how things should run, it creates frustration. The folks actually operating the equipment day in and day out develop real expertise, and that doesn't always feel acknowledged from above.

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