Caterpillar reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(7,328 total reviews)

Joe Creed

68% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,328 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
Dec 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

somewhat better pay ..(certainly not the best in electronics industry)

Cons

- Too much of communal biasing seen at all levels - Senior technical community(not talking about the management here) need to be more respectful about the other younger professionals.From what I have seen, most of the technical people with experience of about 8- 10 years, they are literally interfering in other's(younger ppl) jobs (even if it is not part of their job role) and they vent out their frustration about not making it to the management levels on the younger professionals. They are ruining the inclusion factor and also the team climate and then they try to put the blame on management - Senior technical staff (around 8- 10 years of experience) have very sub-standard motivating skills and lack mentoring skills completely.They also don't like young guys whose communication skills are better than them as most of them were earlier working in small companies ..totally incompetitive mind set among the senior technical leads..some of them even try to de-motivate the agency employees while posing a very good image of themselves to the management

3.0
Mar 11, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

1) Good technical work 2) Good Knowledge repository of Cat, which can give you a lot of learning 3) Flexible Timing 4) OK work life balance (depends upon the person)

Cons

1) Onsite opportunities are very low, this is heartbreaking, since Cat USA has lots of Indian vendors, which are preferred over cat India employee. 2) Cat USA treats CAT India as an another vendor rather than its own counterpart 3) Because of above mentioned reasons, there is no set plan for involvement of CAT India in design and manufacturing the product for Indian market. because of this high profile work is missing, employees still doing the work given to them by US projects, which is good but can be much better being in CAT 4) Low compensation, not upto the market standards 5) Regional politics is very high , since CAT India is in chennai

1.0
Nov 21, 2013

Design Engineer

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Training, great co-workers, flex hours.

Cons

locations, overload of work, getting stuck in one job and cannot move into another group without quiting, getting stuck working for a bosshole, cat in the last decade has slipped to be a place that does not care about its employees at all, will layoff at the drop of a dime anyone no matter how long you've worked there. better off with CNH or Deere, contract designer make more than direct employees., only get paid once a month, have to consider annual bonus as part of salary otherwise does not pay enough, starts everybody out as entry level no matter your experience. don't get a company laptop because you will be expected to work from home and on vacation.

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