Ideal company to work for in the last 5 - 10 years of your retirement - Anonymous employee Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
29 Dec 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People oriented organisation Comparatively better bench-marked compensation and benefits package Most profiles have scope to work end-to-end on the type of job/role that they are in unlike many companies where operations are broken down into several tasks Good work-life balance

Cons

Sudden and drastic measures implemented to help steer organisation from consecutive years of losses Random and mindless re-organisation of employees into roles that are not on par with their competencies and all these done in the name of cost-consciousness

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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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