CAT has gone down the tubes - Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
19 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, but eroding health care benefits and increased cost for insurance

Cons

Pockets of managers and their hand picked staff lack integrity and make bad decisions causing lack of engagement. In the last few years, I have seen too many people in management, not qualified to be there, start rumors, bad talk each other and other employees, and disclose confidential information about employees performance to other employees. The environment has become toxic and comparable to high school maturity levels, and that has destroyed teams of people and caused a large exodus of engineers and support staff. The executive staff is closing facilities, stranding good employees with no opportunities and significantly impacting communities in which they've been a part of for 50+ years.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You are treated with autonomy, dignity, and respect. It is assumed you know how to do your job and are given the trust and means to do so. Compensation is above market value. Uncapped professional growth if you know how to play your cards right.

Cons

Working at Burger King and living from my car in Northern Michigan during the middle of winter was preferable to working on-site in Peoria. Project work was inherently meaningless and dictated almost entirely by the caste system this company has in Central, IL. My relocation had absolutely nothing to do with the role at hand and was a power play by management to get me to become a bleed-yellow Peorian in the CAT-corporate social club. The company loyalty here is absolutely disgusting and has nothing to do with the viability of the brand or product. Everyone is enamored with the status and wealth they've attained on account of not performing hard, manual, life-threatening labor. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually cares about what goes on in the defense division or addressing the geopolitical anomalies between the former headquarters and the new business direction of the company.

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