Poor leadership - Engineering Project Team Leader Caterpillar Employee Review

4.0
Apr 7, 2014
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Pros

Large R&D budgets to work on exciting projects.

Cons

A lot of leadership that has never actually been part of bringing anything to market. The company went thru a phase where it wasn't important if you ever did anything as long as you could give a good presentation. Now that they are in charge they have no idea how anything gets done. They are wheeling out new processes that Chrysler abandoned two bankruptcies ago. We used to joke about the engineers at the big three did nothing but attend meetings all day long. Now we are the joke.

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Cons

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