Great place to be, if you're an accountant or minority - 6 Sigma Black Belt Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Aug 25, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Extremely strong brand in a rising market sector. Most employees really care about doing their job to the best of their ability.

Cons

Caterpillar is bypassing qualified internal candidates for positions in the name of increasing diversity in favor of individuals with lesser qualifications. IT/IS management has good work/life balance, their subordinates don't. Management overpromises and then holds employees responsible for bad goals that they did not help set. Senior management is perceived as having had their "time in the trenches" predominantly in the accounting or finance arena, and have publicly boasted in the business press as having frozen the IT budget at 1999 levels, mostly by reducing IT headcount with "off-shored assets". Unfortunately, (having been there,done that) many of these assets are lowest-bidders with attendant abilities, that the others have to carry the weight of too.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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