You will stay your entire career! - IT Analyst L Caterpillar Employee Review

5.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Caterpillar has excellent benefits. 401k matching, and is one of few companies still giving employer paid pension plans. Excellent opportunities for learning and professional growth. Promotions come from within. Friendly midwestern workplace. Senior management is excellent. CEO Jim Owens has a doctoral degree in economics. Company is focused, successful and growing. People often stay with company for decades.

Cons

The company is very bureaucratic. Like most large companies, change comes slowly. This is more a symptom of size and not the company. The workplace can be very political. Getting projects, and spend approval can be exhaustingly difficult.

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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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