Good benefits until 2006 Pays well but poor management stock options - Engineering Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

4.0
16 Mar 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Job Security if you work hard and are recognized. Benefit were good but deteriorated after 2006. Good opportunities if your willing to travel abroad. Great coworker and people in general. Some upper managers are difficult to work with and communicate poorly. Had a great retirement plan but modified this in 2006. Medical, dental and prescription drug benefits are still good. These were best in the industry, but like all large companies CAT has reduced it's benefit package to now just average. Still a good large manufacturing company to work for.

Cons

The more you do the more work is loaded on you. Little recognition from upper management for a job well done. Too many SMART Goals and Corporate Goals keep changing. In some areas Quantity is emphasized over Quality.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Low mobility to move up within company

2.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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