Good People, Strong focus on growth - Sales Representative Caterpillar Employee Review

4.0
Feb 7, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will find good people in every division you work with. These people are high achievers and focused on hitting challenging targets, are open to change and new ideas. There is good career opportunities if you stay the course. Pay/Benefits are good. Paternity leave is good with 10 weeks for male, 16 weeks female.

Cons

Too many chiefs. Every leader only prioritizes what will allow them to hit their bonus and a lot of the metrics conflict with each other and are not aligned. They are beginning to move to extreme micromanagement of the individual contributor roles. This comes from the challenging targets they set and the significant lack of control they have on hitting those targets. Challenging targets aren’t bad, the Executive Leadership has a strong vision/strategy for growth and where Caterpillar is going. The problem is senior/middle management does not know how to relay that vision and lead their teams. They have good intentions, bad execution. Lots of personality hires, that get promoted off of personality and not performance.

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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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