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      Caterpillar reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (7,328 total reviews)

      Joe Creed

      68% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,328 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Caterpillar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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      7K reviews
      4.0
      May 28, 2016

      Good Company & People. Bad Location.

      Design engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good team of people to work with. Decent salary and compensation. Challenging work assignments. Good focus on employee engagement and work life balance. Rewarded for hard work. Opportunities for growth for high performing individuals.

      Cons

      Very cyclic business with constant layoffs. Work culture does not foster innovation. Requires a lot of wasted efforts to get one's innovative idea to be accepted. Dated and old workplace, facilities and buildings. Terrible location (Illinois). Unreasonably high responsibilities for design engineers.

      2.0
      Apr 5, 2016

      Corporate, hierarchical, behind-the-times

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits are great and include very generous vacation time, personal time, health insurance and many additional discounts and other voluntary benefits.

      Cons

      Definitely the old boys network rules here. If you don't have company connections, it's difficult to get hired and/or once hire, to make a move. Management is from the 1970s-1980s school of management style - do as I say, don't question my authority, etc. If you have outside experience, expect to have them completely discount / disregard that experience. If it isn't Caterpillar experience, it isn't anything. If you are hired as what they call a "mid-career" hire (someone with 5 or more years of outside experience), they will bring you in at the very bottom of the pay scale, and not advance your pay at an appropriate rate, either. Not very woman or minority friendly. A place for white males. Expect to put in some long hours.

      4.0
      Oct 29, 2015

      IT Technical job

      Senior it analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Caterpillar has been a great place to work overall. They are very willing to review your career goals and ensure you're heading in the direction you want to go. The base pay and incentive pay are very respectable. Workers are treated with respect and their opinions are listened to.

      Cons

      The one "con" of working at Caterpillar is, the manufacturing industry is sometimes feast-or-famine (depending on the market demand for product). When it's great it's great. When it's not... it can really be not good. I'm taking voluntary early retirement.

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