Caterpillar reviews

The RI Chief Financial Officer is a disaster of a leader. He is more or so an anti-leader. He acts like a child in meetings, talks about staff behind their backs, and clings on to his "accomplishments" he did as a staff. It's almost embarrassing to watch him in meetings. You can tell he knows he is failing and is blaming things on others. He just repeats what the people above him say even if they don't make sense for RI. He's just a suck-up. It's sad. Caterpillar also constantly expects you to up and move your family. Your kid is about about to go into high school? Too bad! You are moving to Seguin, Texas to get a promotion. Three years later, off to a new factory city. I hope you enjoy factory towns! I live in Peoria and am okay with staying here, but I'll have to move my kids to go up further. Deerfield didn't really work out. Turn over has been high. They have lost very good mid-management people because of the location. Further, no one from here in Peoria wants to go up there. Also, if you are from Chicago, be expected to move to Peoria as well. CAT is in two dying industries. Oil and Mining. We need a strategy change and quick.

I interviewed with Caterpillar Digital at the Chicago location in December of 2019. Went through four rounds of interviews, all of which seemingly went very well. Throughout the interview process, the HR contacts I worked with were efficient and professional, just as you would expect from a large multinational corporation. Unfortunately, after the interviews were over, so was the professionalism. In the weeks, and then months, after the final interview, I heard nothing back from the company. Over a period of two months, I reached out many times to both of the HR contacts I had interacted with. No response at all. After two months of increasing disbelief, I reached out via email to the Chief HR Officer, Cheryl Johnson, describing my situation, along with a timeline of events and communication attempts. Due to the way Cat's email system is set up, (invalid addresses bounce) I'm fairly certain she got the email. Again, no response. All of this transpired before the COVID-19 breakout, so that's not an excuse. TL;DR - After an extensive interview process, three contacts within the Cat HR department, including it's leader, left an applicant twisting in the wind without any feedback at all.