Q&A With 3M Employees

Usually only the employees that come from other cities are more diverse and better educated.

There is a lot of diversity.

Diversity? It's about having intelligent and driven people to create and sustain growth. However, 3M doesn't discriminate in any way if that's what you mean.

Over worked and not appreciated. Expected to get the job done with NO gratitude

Stop sleeping during work. Stop walking off the job to let others do the work.

I honestly do not know

Ethical, experienced, dedicated and highly skilled

They have a good vision of where we need to go.

The culture at this facility is terrible. The inmates truly do run the asylum here. Operators only do the jobs they feel like.

To treat people fairly and with respect

Get rid of the current management.

People interested in Science, regardless of function, interest in Science a must.

Long term employees with good work ethic

You need no education and they have almost a zero drug testing program.

Apply online for jobs that fit your schooling background

They'll spend $100,000 on creating a problem, solving it, then never using the education. This form of spending is preferred over preventive maintenence. They use reactive maintenance and prefer to tape and innovate than replace and save time.

Primarily the internship is open only to college students in their last year of school so not much of a program for just plain internship

Yes to both

Yes.

45-50 hours and the vibe is good compared to other places

Distressed. Currently being forced to work weekends without asking for volunteers first. Avg weekly hours for myself is 52 Monday thru Friday and 16 more on Saturday and Sunday.

Well trained in their roles

Self directed and self motivated. Very proud of the work we do with the age and conditions of the equipment we have to work with.

Mostly work experience

They ask about your background and experience.

Fair

Great I've gotten every job I've ever got an interview for. I'm an over qualified mechanic. 10 years factory experience before 3M degree and Pryor supervisor experience but can't get an interview for most jobs. With the simple response of you don't meet the matrix requirement. Then no one will tell you what those requirements are.

Very good

In my area the wages are low at all levels. Most of the higher up employees done talk about their salary. But the WtL and supervisors I know and I know what there being paid is low.

Not good they are not going by policy

Leadership in general is sad lots of people got to where they are on the buddy system. The plant could use a purge on allot of levels. We have many employees who I think would try and move up but have no faith in there leadership so don't want to be involved in a mess of working for someone who has no clue what there departments even do. Not someone anyone in there right mind would want to be second to.

The vibe is not good in my dept you have a bunch idiots working with me that don't want to listen they tearing product machine up

All the hours I can, usually 50-60 a week to make up for the low wages at our plant in prairie du chien.

50+

Too much time spent on administrative tasks. Need more time to be with customers and distributors.

Great sales teammates. Sales management is not on the same page with the team.

Strong team members that work together.

They are to internally focused on managing reps rather than helping serve our customers needs.

Once upon a time 3M had great sales leadership. They have switched to a model of young less experienced managers that don’t have strong focus on the customers. They focus on internal compliance of reps versus driving high quality customer engagement.

Average pay with minimal upside.

They certainly pay you around what they say they are going to pay. Rarely more and often just a little less. Often change the sales plan mid year. Also don’t give reps an accurate view of sales territory. Reps did not have access to the sales numbers by territory for the entire year, yet management did.

They ask about your background your schooling your prior experience. They check your records for attendance. And see if you have any history of not getting along with others

I do not remember the interview questions that 3M asks.

I'm better than you because I work in the office

The office vibe to me was wishy washy.

The job fine it's the people you hire now never was like this in the past

I am not all that excited for working at 3M.

Like most other plants very self-explanatory. I never did understand why they force people to use all their vacation at the end of the year instead of just paying them for. It's a poor decision and just kills production at the end of the year. They should give employees the option to buy a week out of each paycheck throughout the year and if you don't use all your vacation just pay you for it at the end of the year to balance the books.

Depending on the years it is 1 week or 2 weeks or more.

Very fast they run the very fast

It is busy some days and slow in others.