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Energetic peers with a tremendous amount of innovative ideas that turned in to great innovations.
Software Test Engineer (Current Employee) – Bethesda, MD – April 28, 2016
-A typical day at work includes with me going to the job and having a cup of coffee. I would log in to my computer at the cubicle and check for emails. I would check my calendar whether there is any meeting for that particular day. I would take care of any urgent work that needs my utmost attention and if there isn't then I would start off what is left from the previous day.
- I have learned how to document, update and modify test plans and test cases corresponding to the business rules and requirements. Manually perform System testing, UAT, Functional and Regression testing.
Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using Quality Center.
Reported, exported and tracked bugs to the developers and test leads to maintain sustainability in Quality Center.
Followed Agile Methodology and attained different kinds of meeting like Story Estimation Meeting, Story Kick of Meeting, Story Tasking Meeting, Daily Standup Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, and Retrospective Meeting.
Environment includes VMware Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, SOAP-UI, PVCS Tracker, Windows, Oralcle, SQL, SQL Server and Java.
- Management is great, helpful and very professional among each other and treat the workers with respect as well.
- Co-workers are professional, friendly, respectful.
- The most enjoyable part of the job is to analyze requirement document to write test plan, test case, test the application, log the defects, retesting and prepare reports.
- I have learned how to document, update and modify test plans and test cases corresponding to the business rules and requirements. Manually perform System testing, UAT, Functional and Regression testing.
Maintained and executed test cases and test scripts using Quality Center.
Reported, exported and tracked bugs to the developers and test leads to maintain sustainability in Quality Center.
Followed Agile Methodology and attained different kinds of meeting like Story Estimation Meeting, Story Kick of Meeting, Story Tasking Meeting, Daily Standup Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting, and Retrospective Meeting.
Environment includes VMware Mercury Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, SOAP-UI, PVCS Tracker, Windows, Oralcle, SQL, SQL Server and Java.
- Management is great, helpful and very professional among each other and treat the workers with respect as well.
- Co-workers are professional, friendly, respectful.
- The most enjoyable part of the job is to analyze requirement document to write test plan, test case, test the application, log the defects, retesting and prepare reports.
long hours for full time employees
Production Operator (Current Employee) – Aberdeen, SD – May 21, 2018
Long hours and swing shifts are hard for life/work balance. Typical days are repetitive motions for packing supplies and running machines. Management changes too much. Work place culture can be competitive and people spread rumors easily.
Pros
incentives for good work
Cons
get attendance points for being sick, no real sick days
Not bad
Sr. Product and Process Development Engineer (Former Employee) – St. Paul, MN – May 20, 2018
Great opportunities, but when they reorganize...all bets are off. They are penny wise and dollar foolish on many projects. They go down too many wrong streets before they find the correct one.
Pros
work-life balance
Cons
MN nice
busy enviroment
Production Operator to Line Lead (Former Employee) – Methuen, MA – May 18, 2018
working 8 hours busy to caught whit machines. welding,printing ,coating and printing computer glasses. asa line leader supervising the job, making sure the numbers were complete at he end of the day.
Pros
job stability
Cons
long work hours.
Work was fast paced and lots of hours every day but it was not stressful.
Forklift Operator (Former Employee) – Ontario, CA – May 17, 2018
One thing that made working for 3M great was that everyone worked as a team and got along. On top of that all the overtime made work much better because you are getting paid time and a half at that point.
Pros
Free lunches.
Cons
Long hours. (if you do not like over time)
Worked as twist teacher
Lab Technician (Twist Teacher) (Former Employee) – Saint Paul, MN – May 15, 2018
This was a summer (about 8 weeks) job to learn more about STEM jobs and how they look at 3M. I had a good time working there, everyone was very nice and I learned a lot.
Great Company with training and advancement.
Global Marketing and Sales Manager (Former Employee) – Saint Paul, MN – May 15, 2018
3M is one of the finest corporations in the world. It has a training track for their management team that spans decades. They promoted from within most of the time. They required higher level management to have had a sales role at sometime in their career.
Pros
Best sales and marketing talent in the world.
Cons
Pay levels below industry average.
Fast paced
Executive Administrative Assistant (Former Employee) – Cordova, IL – May 14, 2018
Too much tribal knowledge that not a lot of people cared to share. I walked into the position not knowing anything and having to learn a lot of the processes by myself or with 1-2 day training.
Pros
Management
Cons
Need better training programs
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Productive, Friendly and Relaxed Work Enviroment
IT Support Specialist (Former Employee) – Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Oh and Hebron, Ky – May 14, 2018
3M is an Amazing company to work for. A diverse and friendly environment a with room for Growth.
I've learned a lot of new skills and training while working for 3M.
3M have compatible pay salary, and safe and friendly work environment. If you are in management, you will attend a lot of meetings, necessary for the Business. The manage is well trained and very flexible. The most enjoyable part of working for 3M was the diversity and the Family like work places. I will recommend anyone to work for this company.
I've learned a lot of new skills and training while working for 3M.
3M have compatible pay salary, and safe and friendly work environment. If you are in management, you will attend a lot of meetings, necessary for the Business. The manage is well trained and very flexible. The most enjoyable part of working for 3M was the diversity and the Family like work places. I will recommend anyone to work for this company.
Has gym onsite
Chemical Processor (Former Employee) – Cordova, IL – May 11, 2018
I liked working at 3M, you get plenty of overtime if you want it and the pay and benefits are good. On the production floor you will work with a lot of dangerous chemicals that are reproductive hazards or can cause cancer or death so wear your proper PPE.
From a former contingent worker
Pricing and Merchandising Analyst (Former Employee) – Maplewood, MN – May 10, 2018
My role was to assist with the duties of full-time employees in the transition from legacy contract management systems to SAP. Aside from some communication issues in Chargeback Management, my time there was enjoyable. The workplace was peaceful and the hours were very flexible, occasionally allowing me to work from home.The pacing was irregular- sometimes there was little to do, then everything comes in at once and it's pedal to the metal. need to be flexible ad able to work in high stress situations for short periods of time.
Pros
I had a good contracting agency that provided benefits
Cons
issues with process timing. Some weeks there was little to do, then everything would come in a week before deadline. Be prepared for times of high stress
Great place to work. Great people, fast paced production process.
Production Supervisor (Former Employee) – Little Rock, AR – May 10, 2018
My favorite job of all time. Loved the people, the work and the process. Everyone was motivated and enjoyed working with each other. Wish I was still there. Truly miss everything about 3M.
Pros
Just a great place to work.
Cons
Very dirty and dusty environment.
Understanding Coworkers
Chemical Process Engineer Summer Intern (Former Employee) – Maplewood, MN – May 9, 2018
The work environment was very nice and coworkers were very friendly and understanding. Most enjoyable part of the job was flexibility in schedule. I learned many new skills such as scanning and using Microsoft Excel.
productive
Assembly Line and Machine Operator (Former Employee) – Eden Prairie, MN – May 8, 2018
too fast paced and too demanding. didnt like how others were treating me. too much mandatory overtime. didnt train me in too well to where i didnt get what i was suppose to do.
Perfectly adequate
Manufacturing Technology Development Engineer (Current Employee) – St. Paul, MN – May 8, 2018
3M strives to make sure they benchmark everything against competitive companies, and therefore pay, benefits, work environment, etc. are absolutely average. No real incentive for high performers to stick around. Culture is VERY slowly transitioning to a more modern workplace, so some employees are utilizing a work-from-home arrangement. Many others are absolutely abusing the newfound freedom. Overall, they pay fine, are reasonably stable, and make for a fine place to hang out for 35 years until you finally feel death's cold embrace.