Q&A With 3M Employees

Great, good leadership trying to work through tough times.

Depends on what your interviewing for. Business casual is the norm at most locations. (Look up images online)

Depends on the position. Clean casual for hourly; relaxed business attire for salary

Casual clothes

Health, dental, 401K, HCRA and DCRA, vacation and sick time. Long term & Short term disability, FMLA.

They used to be much better five years ago

Health insurance and 401k for hourly workers. Stock options, better insurance, profit/quarterly bonuses and more vacation time for salary workers.

Be genuine and answer the questions you are asked in a candid way.

Confident and comfortable

3m goes by the point system they don't ask the right questions

I met with sales and marketing team

Met with 9 separate people in 3 groups of 3. Ranging from shift supervisors to HR manager to plant manager.

Plant management and senior engineer

About an hour for each session, 3 total.

4 hours

30 min if you can get one they usually have a person picked for the job before they start the interview. Our HR Dept is run a buddy system and. A Matrix that no one knows but the people who they choose before the interview. A little hint you should take these online classes it'll make you qualified for this job.

Depends on the job your interviewing for.

Fair

To thorough even if you were the most qualified person in the world and you made one mistake you would be out.

2% cost of living raises every year

When we get raises every year but they don't offset the health care costs that rise above the raise amount. We haven't got a good offset to health care cost raise since 1987

Raises happen within one or 2 years after hiring

Not good it's the way they hire people now

Plenty of work not much balance

I guess it is ok.

Don't really know him well enough

They think highly of the CEO, and they can improve on treating their workers better than they do.

The CEO is well respected.

Can you work overtime, do you have a reliable means of transportation and can you work overtime?

What makes you different

What's your weakest attribute, meaning, what do you struggle with.

Unhappy because we're always working

Most are nice people who are scared to do anything to lose their job

Some are lazy some listen some don't have common sense

They don't have common since

Depends some areas it's great with people working as a team. Lots of levels of people doing nothing other that a Kaisan here and there to justify there job.

They seem to try hard.

Signing is booming really no business in my plant is doing bad

Manufacturing we have old equipment that can't keep up with manufacturing goals. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.

I do not know which is growing the fastest, but I do know they have a high turnover.

Doing my job because it's very easy but very hard working with the people that y'all giee now no common sense make my job harder

The satisfaction that your boss knows that he needs you because you're the best at your job.

Being able to come to work and do my job.

Don't know because always working when they have them

It's about been so long since we've had one it's hard to remember. I think it's very sad every time we have an event no matter if it's a Christmas dinner or a company picnic we have to pay like $5 or $10 it's ridiculous

I am not sure about the team outings at 3M.

I know my job well no challenge in it I love the job

I'm not I have a good job and they leave me alone.

I think you can be very challenged at 3M.

Going to do the job I feel good but the new people they will listen I've been in that dept for years don't look forward working with them

I feel like I have a lot more to offer and I'm just burning hours of my life

I don't feel that comfortable about coming to work for 3M everyday.

Attendant s needs to be excellent

Get some Factor experience and have a great attendance record.

I don't know how to improve one's chances for being hired.

I guess alright

It's really nice they just gutted the whole office and spent$250,000 on it instead of giving the people on the floor raises

The office layout is ok, but could use more renovations.

Not good it's changed for the worse management fault don't have good management

I would say there's a lot of disgruntled employees who expect a lot more from management

The morale is well as could be expected, but could use some improvement.

It was not bad when I got hired loved to come to just in about 2008 started the down hill trend

That the pay was as low as it is.

I wish I had known what to expect from them.

Get rid of the “yes” man company managers and hire authentic people that can think for themselves while helping the company grow.

Get better management

I think I would invite cultures they normally don't allow to work there.

Very secure because I have good atendance

I feel really good about it I'm not worried if they caught my job I would just go somewhere else with all my experience it would be fine.

If you're capable, you have nothing to worry about but that's because you should always be improving yourself. If you don't always fear a little for losing your job, you aren't challenged enough or have become complacent - in which case someone better can certainly fill your role.