Mixed Bag - Marketing Manager 3M Employee Review

3.0
29 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Smart colleagues, well-known brands, spans many industries. I am engaged and interested in my work and find it challenging (a good thing). I love the global connections. I also appreciate the recent focus on safety and new products.

Cons

Our company culture has changed dramatically in the last 7 years. I feel a bit surrounded with people who either feel like they need to tell leadership what they want to hear or are very unhelpfully cynical. I can’t recommend it anymore given how this impacts my ability to make an impact with my work. No matter what our team tries to accomplish, there’s a ton of internal friction and resistance from all sides (leaders, cross-functionals, support functions, peers) these days.

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5.0
11 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work for what you get. Rewarding work and great management structure

Cons

Management can be vague sometimes

3.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company investing in new products and higher growth markets

Cons

Over the past five years, there has been a significant decline in employee loyalty and incentive programs. Equity compensation, such as stock options and RSUs, was previously accessible to mid-level managers but is now strictly reserved for directors and above, reducing long-term incentives for a large portion of the workforce. Additionally, an increase in micromanagement and administrative red tape—particularly regarding strict scrutiny on all spending—has hindered productivity. The frequent practice of cutting budgets to meet short-term quarterly Operating Income (OI) targets is ultimately compromising our long-term revenue growth.

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