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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (7,325 total reviews)

      Joe Creed

      67% 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 7,325 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
      Aug 25, 2022

      CAT Digital is a chaotic mess

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent compensation, 401(k) match, and bonus. WLB is pretty good - I rarely work more than 40 hrs/week. Access to modern technologies, although approval process can take some time.

      Cons

      I can't speak to the rest of the org, but my time in CAT Digital has been super frustrating. Most of the data pipelines are an over-architectured and error-prone mess. This is because leadership hires a ton of contractors (which, is not necessarily a bad thing!) but then doesn't give them the support needed to succeed in their job. The team leads I've worked with are either unmotivated, or spread way too thin to be effective. I can't recommend working for CAT Digital - this business unit has a LONG way to go and I don't seem them getting there in the next decade.

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      Thank you for sharing your experience. We appreciate the work you are doing and the feedback on ways we can improve.
      1.0
      Aug 1, 2019

      Not a respectful culture for women or minorities

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Slow pace of getting things done Decent pay

      Cons

      Good ole boys network runs the company - getting promoted or kept around is all about who you know and the politics you play. Terrible senior leadership of digital that’s continuing to get worse. Old school approaches to digital technology. Spin and politics are applied to everything to make it look better than it really is. Digital products are vapor ware.

      1.0
      Jul 25, 2019

      Beware - Carefully consider your options

      Anonymous
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Market-competitive salary, *Low demands for work product and quality, *Opportunities for relocation, *A handful of very smart colleagues (but only a handful)

      Cons

      *Legacy and tenure is highly valued and praised over good work, intelligence and ideas, *Mid-career hires are viewed as providing little-to-no-value as they do not come from the Caterpillar culture and way of life, and are actively judged and have comments made about them, *Poor quality work in high volumes is valued over high quality work, *The company is in a time of change, where many non-HQ team leads are kicking and screaming in protest (so to speak) to the required changes, which makes everyone's job unnecessarily more difficult, *Beware HQ culture (there is none) and inappropriate employee attitudes / behavior, *Inexcusably poor behavior by managers (verbal abuse, passive aggressive digs, gossip and degrading comments, etc are not abnormal)

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