Plenty of opportunities - Anonymous employee Caterpillar Employee Review

4.0
Dec 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This company has many opportunities for the hard working professional. The various career paths can be overwhelming at first. If you are a high performer and the opportunity is available, you will be recognized and rewarded for hard work.

Cons

The expectation for employees in the salaried (exempt) population is to work whatever hours are required to get the job done. That may mean long hours each day, in addition to putting in more hours at home in the evening/weekend. The management team responds to emails while they're on vacation. The atmosphere and work culture (for exempt level employees) is one where you're never truly unplugged.

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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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