Diverse company, Average pay - Process Engineer 3M Employee Review

4.0
28 Nov 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Many different industries to work in, and it's not hard to move to different locations and/or a different division within the company. Good people to work with. Manufacturing and Lab/Corporate usually have a good working relationship. Work-life balance is good most of the time. They also do a decent job of investing for the future and increasing capacity.

Cons

Absolute, calculated average on pay and benefits. They say they want the best employees to drive innovation but are not willing to pay for them. As with a lot of big companies, there is a level of hypocrisy as it is said employees are the most important resource in the company but everything is, of course, metric-driven and decisions are made to best benefit the stockholders.

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5.0
15 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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