Caterpillar reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(7,318 total reviews)

Joe Creed

67% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,318 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
4.0
Oct 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Conservative, stable corporation that offers a great 401(k) program and good medical/dental benefits. Paid vacation, paid holidays and personal days provide you with plenty of time to do the things you want to do outside of work. Finally, the company actually stands behind its tuition reimbursement program unlike other companies (CAT paid 90% of my tuition in getting my MBA from Bradley Univ.).

Cons

Once hired into a specific business unit of the company, it is very difficult to transfer to another business unit. Senior mgmt prefers that employees remain in the business unit they were hired into indefinitely. There needs to be more performance feedback reviews for each employee. Too often this gets ignored by managers because of other higher priorities from their own supervisor.

1.0
Oct 1, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The health insurance wasn't terrible, but the co-pay's were starting to go up when I left. The dental coverage was mediocre, and the vision coverage was better than average.

Cons

Terrible management attitude towards Unionized employees, but that's not that the Union was any better at treating its members at times. Managers, especially the decent ones, got shuffled around a lot, and most liked to micromanage and criticize and would be very scarce on praise, if offered at all.

2.0
Sep 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Caterpillar is a fortune 50 company that everyone know and in general has a good reputation. Full of many talented people. Until the recession pay was very good and benefits were good.

Cons

Middle management can be terrible. Promotions are not based on tallent and experience. They are based on who you know and how good you can delegate your work to your coworkers. Our benefits are slowly being taken away. We just lost our pensions and healthcare is reduced each year.

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