Stable company with poor management decisions impacting employees - Electrical Engineering Technical Specialist Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Stable Company (100 years in Business) World Wide Footprint Good Brand Name Diversified Product Line

Cons

-Management lost their way with respect to how they treat people -Capricious and Ill-considered management decisions are forcing many good and loyal employees to relocate or quit -Management talks work/life balance but every decision they make seems to take more away from the lives of the people working there -Management has taken to the ideas that all employees are just interchangeable cogs that can be swapped around without consequences

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5.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, pay, and room to grow and expand your skills. They definitely invest time and money in training for most roles which goes a long way for early career.

Cons

Sometimes expected to work and travel more than you signed up for but it's worth it for everything else.

2.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

You are treated with autonomy, dignity, and respect. It is assumed you know how to do your job and are given the trust and means to do so. Compensation is above market value. Uncapped professional growth if you know how to play your cards right.

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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