Caterpillar reviews

*Legacy and tenure is highly valued and praised over good work, intelligence and ideas, *Mid-career hires are viewed as providing little-to-no-value as they do not come from the Caterpillar culture and way of life, and are actively judged and have comments made about them, *Poor quality work in high volumes is valued over high quality work, *The company is in a time of change, where many non-HQ team leads are kicking and screaming in protest (so to speak) to the required changes, which makes everyone's job unnecessarily more difficult, *Beware HQ culture (there is none) and inappropriate employee attitudes / behavior, *Inexcusably poor behavior by managers (verbal abuse, passive aggressive digs, gossip and degrading comments, etc are not abnormal)

Lip service to the Code of Conduct while pulling some of the most unethical maneuvers and treating employees as a disposable asset to be flexed for ROI while demanding greater output from those remaining to maintain velocity. HR Managers have no idea what's actually in the employee manual, and don't seem to care. Mid-level managers do whatever they want, crack racist and homophobic jokes, and then expect good leadership and Employee Opinion Survey ratings. Company finally eliminated EOS because employee satisfaction had become interminably low due to continuously increasing Exececutives compensation and paying out on their Bonus Plans while canceling the incentive plan for everyone else. I guess decided why let employees see everyone else is just as disgruntled and risk return of unions. Managers didn't adapt well to push by new CEO Jim Umplby to actually write Goals at start of year Vs. just fudging a summary of what employees did at end of year as "Goals". Managers were suddenly expected to coach and mentor, treating the "Manager" part of the job with top priority, which threw a company full of incompetent mid-level managers into disarray.