Very good - Senior Mechanical Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

5.0
11 Nov 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you are straight out of college then this is very good company. Here you can learn almost everything. Technical and everything else that is essential in professional life. Work life balance is very good as well.

Cons

For those who stay for long, there isn't a formula that you can find. Can you be specialist and then company would value you? Or do you want to be a well versed in your experience and then company would value you? or you want to be high flyer and then company would value you?...just clueless even after 11+ years of service

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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