Once a great place to work, but IR leadership made it miserable - Investor Relations Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Caterpillar still offers decent pay and benefits for the industry, good 401(k) match, and some teams still have a good work-life-balance. The work itself can still be interesting as the company is a leader in the Industrials space.

Cons

The IR department has become heavily toxic. Leadership of the team do not have prior experience in IR or high finance. They constantly micromanage you, dissuade you from taking earned PTO, try to find ways to belittle you publicly, and schedule daily status meetings to slow any real work down. Career opportunities and upward mobility are non-existent below the Sr. Director level. Other teams at CAT have lost respect for the IR team and find IR difficult to work with.

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Working at Burger King and living from my car in Northern Michigan during the middle of winter was preferable to working on-site in Peoria. Project work was inherently meaningless and dictated almost entirely by the caste system this company has in Central, IL. My relocation had absolutely nothing to do with the role at hand and was a power play by management to get me to become a bleed-yellow Peorian in the CAT-corporate social club. The company loyalty here is absolutely disgusting and has nothing to do with the viability of the brand or product. Everyone is enamored with the status and wealth they've attained on account of not performing hard, manual, life-threatening labor. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually cares about what goes on in the defense division or addressing the geopolitical anomalies between the former headquarters and the new business direction of the company.

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