Stuck Doing the Old Ways, Yet Advertize They are Innovating and Digital - Product Development Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Jul 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay for the area.

Cons

Career Planning? Why bother! Give, push, and fight for the customer or to do things right - nope? High performers were let go fall 2016 with only explanation of "Sorry, we have no place for you in the company" during a hostile takeover of the product development division. 8 months later they disband the new merged division. Now voluntary attrition of those left seeing what happened around them has been increasing.

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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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