Project Engineer - Senior Project Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ananimity - Good pay with low expectations. Never seen anyone lose their job for low performance, the work is not tracable to an individual.

Cons

Ananimity - No one knows what you are really doing and where you are adding value. When they lay you off they do not know what the impact will be because management doesn't even know your name. Management rotates like musical chairs every 3 to 4 years. You have to start all over, developing metrics and training new management on what your job is and how you fit into the corporation. Because there is no tracability to low performance, I have seen very competent and ambitious people laid off while the person right next to them stays in place and does very little outside of surfing the web all day.

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Cons

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