Company going backwards - Project Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
Jun 7, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great salary and benefits. People are great to work with and the company helps you if you want to grow or change roles.

Cons

The company is going backwards in terms of progress. It began in late 2024 with their reversal of DEI polices. Then announced a week before Christmas, while most people were already on vacation, that Resource Industries would be returning to mandatory 5 days a week in office starting in Feb 2025. It all felt very off-putting because they never sent any written communication about this new policy, and when the Vice President (Tim Crane) was asked directly if we would be getting written communication about the change in a town hall meeting, we were told directly that written communication would NOT be sent and to discuss it further with your individual manager (who when asked, also didn't know what was going on). Then in April 2025 a new CEO steps in (Joe Creed) and now the entire company (100k+ employees) is returning to mandatory 5 days a week in the office starting June 2025. The company has always put focus in the past on having a great work life balance and this is emphasised on annual employee surveys.

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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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