A good place to grow old - Business Development Manager 3M Employee Review

3.0
15 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very social attitude towards employees and work-life balance resulting in low employee turnover rates. Very strict business ethics and culture of respect and tolerance for diversity as well as high sense for environmental responsibility. Many different work opportunities within the same company. Excellent reputation for high quality products and innovativeness. Stable business growth creating secure work places.

Cons

Extremely complex matrix organisation structure with chronically underressourced teams that are supposed to achieve outstanding reasults by coincidence. Very poorly designe structures for customer-facing and external business subserving tasks. Far too much administration and formalized processes creating internal friction and reducing time and energy for more meaningfull external and customer-oriented work. Too many initiatives and programms that seem to serve more as career boosters for the individuals who introduce them instead of making real positive impact on business results and culture. Filling of higher level job grades very intransparent. Latent attitude of risk-aversity. Little possibility to develop fast for real talent.

Explore other reviews about 3M

5.0
15 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay and coworkers were friendly

Cons

Rotating shifts were not for me

2.0
25 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All