Great professional experience, competitive salary, but cut throat environment. - Process Engineer 3M Employee Review

3.0
Nov 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great professional experience, competitive salary, reasonable work hours, all expenses paid travel.

Cons

Sketchy management, back stabbing environment, managers only look out for themselves, upper level directors and executives most often do not have a clue what is happening in their own plant(s). Travel is expected if you are an engineer and the majority of 3Mers will do time at 3M headquarters in St. Paul MN at some point in their career. Need to be willing to relocate in order to survive at 3M.

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5.0
May 15, 2026
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Pros

Good pay and coworkers were friendly

Cons

Rotating shifts were not for me

2.0
May 25, 2026
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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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