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Q&A With 3M Employees

Discover what life with 3M is like for 3Mers at our plants, labs and offices, how our pay and benefits enable 3Mers to live their best life, how 3Mers are making an impact in the world, and why 3Mers are encouraged to always bring their true selves and curiosity to work each day.

How employees describe working at 3M

The company is in a steep decline. Would not be surprised if they go bankrupt in 3-5 years. It is a small miracle that they can still find customers dumb enough to buy their low quality, overpriced adhesives.

quality of product always good

Highly skilled craftsmen who are talented.

My peers, team, manager and compensation

There are OT opportunities all the time

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What it's like to work at 3M

  • 3M employees generally work 9.4 hrs a day
  • Employees at 3M report the work pace is comfortably fast
  • On a typical day, employees at 3M have 1 meeting
  • 79% of 3M employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
  • 3M employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
  • 72% of 3M employees report they are happy with their work life balance
  • 3M employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Once a quarter
  • 60% of 3M employees call their work environment positive

Q&A With 3M Employees

Asked to the Operations Department at 3M

  • Machine operator with min. 5 years experience that can set-up, troubleshoot, and teardown jobs based on the orders requests. Must be able to follow extremely detailed work instructions and work with tight tolerances.

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Asked to the Operations Department at 3M

  • Previous work experience? Can you work any shift? Can you work a rotating/swing shift? Can you work O.T.? Can you routinely lift 25lbs constantly throughout the day (8hrs.)?

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Asked to all employees at 3M

  • Why are you interested

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Asked to the Engineering Department at 3M

  • Exellent

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Asked to the Engineering Department at 3M

  • 8-12 hour days

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Asked to the Engineering Department at 3M

  • Great group to work with

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Asked to the Engineering Department at 3M

  • Overly demanding without knowing what is required to do job properly

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Asked to the Marketing Department at 3M

  • 50+

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Asked to the Marketing Department at 3M

  • Great

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Asked to the Marketing Department at 3M

  • Fabulous

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Asked to all employees at 3M

  • I am not sure of how they make decisions because promotions.

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Aggregated Employee Answer on Comparably

  • 3M's Engineering team rates their overall benefits an A+ and most of them think the perks are Neutral. 81% of 3M employees in Engineering say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees in Engineering also get 20-30 days of paid vacation, and most of them believe the cash value of their benefits is $500 -$1000/mo.

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36% of 3M employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 19% are neutral and 45% would not recommend working at 3M to their friends.

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