Pros
- Some of the most amazing and intelligent Engineers I've ever had the pleasure of working with have been on my team and sister teams - HIS Division functions a bit like a start-up : laid back, able to control your own sprint items/research items, lots of freedom with AWS/tech stacks (although that can be from team to team) - Decent Healthcare - Time off is lackluster unless you get a boost because of where you live, then it's awesome - Sick time is pretty stellar - 401K Match is decent + StockOptions are a nice perk - Most of the functional teams who lack the software/cloud knowledge are really trying to come up to speed; there are lot of good people working really hard to grow/be better in the software cloud space. (But, lots of managers who aren't want to put down others and get defensive).
Cons
- Still a pretty heavy white Boys club, especially in upper management. There are some female/non-white/non-binary faces, but not enough throughout the org, ESPECIALLY in engineering - The Job function structure is opaque, I've interviewed people who were to be in a grade above me with less experience in my skill set - A lot of the brilliant engineers I've worked with are actually Contractors/employees of Stelligent, so they don't stick around - 3M HIS seems to have trouble hiring/finding talent for some reason--HR I think doesn't know how to recruit Software Engineering folks, so a lot of Managers and team leads are doing double duty finding people. Hiring process is SUppppppper slow/drawn out/unorganized so we lose candidates before we can even interview them - Definite disconnect between the actual engineers and management who controls our destiny (I get the sense that no one read my resume/I've gotten silo-ed/forgotten) - Corporate policies are still not quite there with functioning like a software company - There's no on-call : the reason this is a negative is because they haven't designed it yet. The teams are really advanced/accelerated in some aspects and in the dark ages in others. (Advance CICD/IaC, yet no ops support, and the cloud security team is completely lost).I can see this coming back to bite 3M when the SLAs/apps get more attention by users. Some managers are trying to fix this. . . - whenever corporate networking has to get involved, it's a power struggle. They don't understand cloud and generally behave like the 1990s with IP space requests; there's a definite sense of some teams feeling threatened outside our little engineering/devops bubble - education reimbursement is pint-sized compared to company size
