Everyone is expendable, nobody is anything more to the company than a line on the budget. - Recruitment Solutions Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Huge company with endless advancement opportunities • Great opportunity to travel, even internationally • Huge profits mean huge budgets to get state of the art tools for doing better work • Supremely well polished branding • Great reputation for being a well paying employer

Cons

• When a finance geek determines you're able to be removed from the budget, you are without any consideration • Execs do not care about the underlings at any level of the company • Very much a 'good ol' boys' environment politically • Extremely political posturing, if you aren't akin to Frank Underwood, you'll flounder fast • You as a human will never be worth more than the shareholder dividend

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 10, 2026
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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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