Cat Great Products/ Old School Management - Senior IT Analyst Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Jan 15, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome products and Reputation. Access to training on new technology. Experienced People who are willing to help each other. Peoria area is a low cost place to live. Originally came back for heath care at retirement, but that benefit was taken away. Global Travel opportunities and good vacation and benefits.

Cons

Old style managment, rust belt/factory atitude. Place is like the story of the emporers new clothes. The upper managment does not want to hear bad news when there mind is made up to do a project. The messengers are slaughtered. Too much of a good old boy club, very little diversity in upper management. Talk diveristy but not seen higher up. Too many levels, the originization lives in fear of upper management. LOTS OF TURF WARS

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Pros

You are treated with autonomy, dignity, and respect. It is assumed you know how to do your job and are given the trust and means to do so. Compensation is above market value. Uncapped professional growth if you know how to play your cards right.

Cons

Working at Burger King and living from my car in Northern Michigan during the middle of winter was preferable to working on-site in Peoria. Project work was inherently meaningless and dictated almost entirely by the caste system this company has in Central, IL. My relocation had absolutely nothing to do with the role at hand and was a power play by management to get me to become a bleed-yellow Peorian in the CAT-corporate social club. The company loyalty here is absolutely disgusting and has nothing to do with the viability of the brand or product. Everyone is enamored with the status and wealth they've attained on account of not performing hard, manual, life-threatening labor. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually cares about what goes on in the defense division or addressing the geopolitical anomalies between the former headquarters and the new business direction of the company.

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