Once a great place to work, but IR leadership made it miserable - Investor Relations Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Caterpillar still offers decent pay and benefits for the industry, good 401(k) match, and some teams still have a good work-life-balance. The work itself can still be interesting as the company is a leader in the Industrials space.

Cons

The IR department has become heavily toxic. Leadership of the team do not have prior experience in IR or high finance. They constantly micromanage you, dissuade you from taking earned PTO, try to find ways to belittle you publicly, and schedule daily status meetings to slow any real work down. Career opportunities and upward mobility are non-existent below the Sr. Director level. Other teams at CAT have lost respect for the IR team and find IR difficult to work with.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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