Caterpillar – “Senior Associate Engineer”

Pros

Good pay, reasonable hours, great opportunities for advancement, very good middle management, impressive manufacturing capability, strong supply and customer base, and overall a good place to work.

Cons

In a company as large as Caterpillar it is often easy to get lost in the shuffle and not see how what you are doing is affecting the bottom line of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

You run the company with sound financial practice, but need to realize that CAT sells technically advanced machinery, not mutual funds. More than just shoving money at product development there needs to be good judgment and accountability to see that technically sound advancements are being made that truly enable the production of better machinery for the customer.