A so-so company with no career growth or happiness - Analyst Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some departments provided flexibility to work remotely most of the time. Mine did (CAT Digital). The benefits were really good. The 401k match is very tough to beat. Dental and vision are paid for by the company. Health insurance is also priced very low. Some co-workers can be knowledgeable and helpful.

Cons

Zero/toxic work culture. Low wages. Just slave away. Expect more than 40 hrs of work per week. No WLB. Management (CAT Digital) doesn't really care about employee growth or career advancements. To get a promotion or significant salary hike, you need to dedicate at least 6 years(minimum) of your life here. The promotion process is super weird and extremely hard to beat. Rampant favoritism, abuse, and racism in the CAT Digital division. Teams are micro-managed to the last percent leading to inevitably leaving the company. Very hard to move internally as well. Employee surveys are a joke. They say they are anonymous but they track all the employees who put in negative feedback. Teams are driven by fear & vengeance, not motivation. Re-orgs keep happening each year moving you lower the hierarchy with each re-org. There's nothing much you can do about it.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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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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