It is comforting to hear people say that in general we have a reputation as good and quality workers on the job market, and I hope that is true.
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From personal experience (mid career guy here) and also from knowing various people in many areas who have left 3M over the years, here is my take.
If you are a technical person in 3M with demonstrated ability in product development and commercialization, you will be highly sought after in competitor companies or even other related industries. In general you should be able to match or even surpus what you were making in 3M.
If you were in a mid manager kind of role, keep your expectations low. It will be hard to match your salary elsewhere since knowledgeable firms will not splurge on someone whose main job was making slide decks, attending meetings all day and other such zero added value for the company.
The market has no faith in our leadership.
The market is demanding people with Lotus Notes skills.
A lot come across like spoilt children who are too accustomed to having smoke blown up their a-s
Ha, the smoke on Linkedin about the great talent. Yes, 3M hires great talent, but skills degrade there and you leave less employable than when you arrived. Especially in IT, unless they build a time machine and apply for jobs in 1996!
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Hard to say. I think a lot of older generation 3M lifers now on the job market will struggle to adapt to other companies. Not all, but a good amount. The <40 crowd is probably more adaptable. I say this as someone who left 3M and has seen the other side. 3M has a lot of archaic processes/systems and culture issues which are more deeply ingrained the longer you've worked at 3M.
I think the people with 20 plus years of experience will be ok once the dust settles. What happened to Kodak is now happening to 3M. The employees didn't cause this, the "leaders" did.
If you are among the younger crowd, like it or not, people wonder about the work ethic. Just make sure you come across as a hard worker and show how you went the extra mile at times.
It's people like Hammes that will find it harder to ever get back to the pay level he ascended too.
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Not very good. We hired a few ex-3Mers in the past. All they would do is sit on their computers and watch Netflix during work hours, talk about golf, and talk about mom and dad's boat (thanks to 3M) that they plan to inherit. None of them work for us anymore.