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      Caterpillar reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (7,327 total reviews)

      Joe Creed

      68% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,327 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Caterpillar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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      7K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 1, 2024

      Massive, Impersonal, Infelxible Company

      Embedded software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some teams can be good, mixed bag. Opportunity to work on some cool projects. Flexible 9/80 schedule and decent holidays. Pay is above average for area, but below across industry.

      Cons

      Intra-company politics make for rigid processes and stifle productive work. Regularly encourage overtime to meet unrealistic goals. No care for employees from upper management. You are a pawn and treated like one. As a SWE, I was made to train for a factory line position in the event of a union strike. Company is willing to pit engineers against other employees for upper management and shareholder benefit. Constant offshoring of engineering jobs to keep wages low at the expense of quality. Most new hires are non-US positions.

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      Thank you for sharing your experience. As we look for ways to improve, your feedback is valued.
      3.0
      Mar 4, 2020

      Overall Culture Change - not for the better

      Human resources
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Caterpillar's overall compensation was good, most of the people were nice.

      Cons

      Leadership was so out of touch with reality. More days than not, we often felt the tension of a toxic environment.

      1.0
      Dec 17, 2019

      Data clueless

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Absolutely nothing, Caterpillar is essentially level 0 in terms of data analytics preparedness.

      Cons

      It's a joke to think Caterpillar even has a data analytics department. The Accenture experiment with Morgan was a bust. Uptake was a bust. Caterpillar can't buy a data analytic win (and if they could they would!). Any data scientists still in the enterprise should find jobs outside that will pay roughly 20-30% more while keeping comparable benefits.

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