Caterpillar reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(7,326 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 7,326 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
3.0
Feb 20, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, emphasis on diversity and inclusion, working environment is comfortable and everyone is very polite and nice to talk to. Pay is good, Peoria is a nice place to live (but watch out for high property tax rates).

Cons

Short term funding structure causes projects to be abandoned and effort wasted because managers appear to forget the 3-5 year cumulative benefit of the technology, or the penalty of losing it. Company recently shrunk from 60B to 40B and promotions are obviously not available. Technical track positions top out; further promotion is only available for the manager track. Officers are unfamiliar with "digital stuff" (their words) and find it difficult to modernize. My personal experience is that slight differences of perspective with funding managers will cause subtle losses of opportunity and reduced likelihood of promotion.

4.0
Feb 16, 2016

Okay

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively high paying job. If you want it there are tons of opportunities for overtime. Theres also the opportunity for tuition reimbursement

Cons

For tuition reimbursement you have to be a full time employee for a year. You have to be a supplemental employee for 2 years. So you won't get tuition reimbursement for the first 3 years on the job. Your job isnto guaranteed. Employees losing.jobs left and right

5.0
Feb 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company and wonderful peers to work with each day

Cons

current downsizing efforts forced reductions in IT area

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