3M reviews

The managers are changing very often of positions and as the culture is to consider that changes are providing always added value, I had several managers with very low experience in their position. and therefore their capacity to bring technical support to their subordinates is rather poor. The way you are perceived in your job can change very quickly from positive to negative in particular if you don't show strong motivation to move to another position after 3-4 years. The worst can be as in my case to be considered as not anymore valuable because of too much time spent in the position. The acknowledge of my technical competencies by my managers was rather low while in the same time the job was obviously very correctly done. Here the question of the matching between the culture of the company and myself was the reason raised to justify that from their side ! Salary policy is rather not interesting for middle management and the comments from the HR about that is to explain that the expectations of earnings from the equity funds which have invested into 3M are always even higher !!

Limited advancement opportunities depending on size of plant.