Caterpillar reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(7,330 total reviews)

Joe Creed

68% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,330 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Caterpillar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely strong brand in a rising market sector. Most employees really care about doing their job to the best of their ability.

Cons

Caterpillar is bypassing qualified internal candidates for positions in the name of increasing diversity in favor of individuals with lesser qualifications. IT/IS management has good work/life balance, their subordinates don't. Management overpromises and then holds employees responsible for bad goals that they did not help set. Senior management is perceived as having had their "time in the trenches" predominantly in the accounting or finance arena, and have publicly boasted in the business press as having frozen the IT budget at 1999 levels, mostly by reducing IT headcount with "off-shored assets". Unfortunately, (having been there,done that) many of these assets are lowest-bidders with attendant abilities, that the others have to carry the weight of too.

2.0
Jan 12, 2012

waste of time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It is a big company to work with, it has various product lines, and manufacturing facilities all over the world.

Cons

There are so many meaningless meetings.

3.0
Dec 16, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Steady income (If you want to maintain a standard of living) - Steady work - 401k plan - Medical - Dental

Cons

Career advancement only goes to favorites. Those that do the work are kept in place so supervisors can look good to their bosses. You can work as much or as little as you like but the reward is always the same. Almost every year something is reduced or taken away from benefits. Caterpillar was sold to me originally as being above the rest in wages and benefits. Now we are the with the rest as pay and benefits lag behind.

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