CAT has gone down the tubes - Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, but eroding health care benefits and increased cost for insurance

Cons

Pockets of managers and their hand picked staff lack integrity and make bad decisions causing lack of engagement. In the last few years, I have seen too many people in management, not qualified to be there, start rumors, bad talk each other and other employees, and disclose confidential information about employees performance to other employees. The environment has become toxic and comparable to high school maturity levels, and that has destroyed teams of people and caused a large exodus of engineers and support staff. The executive staff is closing facilities, stranding good employees with no opportunities and significantly impacting communities in which they've been a part of for 50+ years.

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Cons

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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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