OK Company Weak Industry No Innovation - Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
Dec 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of good people at middle mgmt and below,

Cons

Upper management thinks of people as inventory to acquire and dispose of at a will. They will bring large amounts of people in during the good years and then lay them off in the bad years instead of creating a core group and supplementing them with temporary staffing. This is a very up and down business and they know that but they keep doing the same thing every business cycle. Also, if you have the thought that you will go in and change things with a new idea, it probably will not get through the thousand layers of people and processes. They are very conservative and resistant to changing anything that they currently do.

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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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