3M India is quite unprofessional and unethical as far as its treatment to employees are concerned - Anonymous employee 3M Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nothing in particular. Its a sleepy organization which will offer you decent work life balance with no desire to improve

Cons

It only rewards loyalty and most of the senior managers are old 3Mers who have only seen 3M and are completely unaware of whats happening outside the world. They invariably will favour their old employees over new ones for only one reason i.e. loyalty even if they do not have any talent or desire to improve the 3M process. I think worst is 3M supply chain which is headed by an old timer who would go to any length to ensure metrics look good even though its wrong or fudged. Completely unethical. This is one of the reason very few lateral hires stay beyond 1-2 years in 3M supply chain.i

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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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