A market leader weighed down by legacy - Senior Engineer - Development/Research Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
2 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a strong drive to innovate and provide value to customer. Good work life balance and lot of opportunities to diversify your skills. Access to excellent technical resources.

Cons

Weighed down by bureaucracy. There is a process even for the simplest of things, which prevents the organisation from being agile and fast evolving. There is always a tussle between the different tech centres to take control of work. The company is spooked out about IPR and go to great lengths to protect data, even at the cost of delay in work. Quite difficult for tech employees to adapt to the strict IT rules.

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