Caterpillar reviews

Upper management thinks of people as inventory to acquire and dispose of at a will. They will bring large amounts of people in during the good years and then lay them off in the bad years instead of creating a core group and supplementing them with temporary staffing. This is a very up and down business and they know that but they keep doing the same thing every business cycle. Also, if you have the thought that you will go in and change things with a new idea, it probably will not get through the thousand layers of people and processes. They are very conservative and resistant to changing anything that they currently do.