Excellent benefits, services, training, not very tech focused. - Senior Software Engineer 3M Employee Review

4.0
Jul 6, 2015
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Pros

The benefits are top notch I doubt many companies will provide better. The job training is the best I've ever been offered. The company is very serious about retaining top talent. The work environment is very friendly and low stress.

Cons

Management does not understand technology. Patents are more important than open source and they want to convert everything to Microsoft. Switching from SVN to TFS was an upper management decision when it should be an engineer's decision. Virtual machine provision is locked behind archaic red tape.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Good pay and decent benefits.

Cons

Current management is completely disconnected from the needs and concerns of individual contributors. Which appears to be on purpose, as the company is in an active strategy of both strategic layoffs and of driving attrition in general, so everyone's stress levels are super high. The head of HR just quit so I can only assume worse labor actions are on their way. Also, be ready to not have a desk but still be required to come in 4 days a week.

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