A so-so company with no career growth or happiness - Analyst Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some departments provided flexibility to work remotely most of the time. Mine did (CAT Digital). The benefits were really good. The 401k match is very tough to beat. Dental and vision are paid for by the company. Health insurance is also priced very low. Some co-workers can be knowledgeable and helpful.

Cons

Zero/toxic work culture. Low wages. Just slave away. Expect more than 40 hrs of work per week. No WLB. Management (CAT Digital) doesn't really care about employee growth or career advancements. To get a promotion or significant salary hike, you need to dedicate at least 6 years(minimum) of your life here. The promotion process is super weird and extremely hard to beat. Rampant favoritism, abuse, and racism in the CAT Digital division. Teams are micro-managed to the last percent leading to inevitably leaving the company. Very hard to move internally as well. Employee surveys are a joke. They say they are anonymous but they track all the employees who put in negative feedback. Teams are driven by fear & vengeance, not motivation. Re-orgs keep happening each year moving you lower the hierarchy with each re-org. There's nothing much you can do about it.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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