Beware - Carefully consider your options - Anonymous Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
25 July 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

*Market-competitive salary, *Low demands for work product and quality, *Opportunities for relocation, *A handful of very smart colleagues (but only a handful)

Cons

*Legacy and tenure is highly valued and praised over good work, intelligence and ideas, *Mid-career hires are viewed as providing little-to-no-value as they do not come from the Caterpillar culture and way of life, and are actively judged and have comments made about them, *Poor quality work in high volumes is valued over high quality work, *The company is in a time of change, where many non-HQ team leads are kicking and screaming in protest (so to speak) to the required changes, which makes everyone's job unnecessarily more difficult, *Beware HQ culture (there is none) and inappropriate employee attitudes / behavior, *Inexcusably poor behavior by managers (verbal abuse, passive aggressive digs, gossip and degrading comments, etc are not abnormal)

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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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