Review - Project Team Lead Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
23 Jan 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good healthcare plan, decent compensation especially when living in Peoria. Opportunity to move around the company both in North America and overseas

Cons

As an electrical engineer and software engineer, Caterpillar as a company lacks the understanding that their products have increasing complexity in electronics. The upper management treats their machine differentiation in mechanical terms. They lack understanding of SDLC, lack flexibility and take unwarranted risk with late changes due to their perception that changing software/firmware does not introduce as much risk versus changing mechanical parts.

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Cons

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Pros

Good pay Some people in the company are great

Cons

Poorly thought out placement- I was put on a team across the country from where i lived the entired team was new to caterpillar because their company was bought out by cat. They had never had any form of intern before and didnt have anyone else who was remote other then me. Because of time differences the manager reguarly expected me to work off the clock but wouldnt give me project during work hours. No room for growth within team i was stuck to- i asked on multiple occasions how i could stand out and get a permanent position within cat since i was one semester from grafuating and was told by multiple people to just deal with my current role and leave cat because "the only real way to get in is if you work as temp worker and they just hapoen to decide to bring u on internally from that"

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