Caterpillar Inc. Employee Reviews
Out of 780 Caterpillar Inc. employee reviews, 56% were positive. The remaining 44% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Caterpillar Inc. improve their work culture. The Marketing team, with 90% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Caterpillar Inc. compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 57% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Posted 17 days ago
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Customer focus with strong technical requirement
Posted 13 days ago
If there's questions it gets figured out. Conflict gets resolved.
Look out for the best
too early to tell as i have not been with the company long enough
They try at times to get things solved
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Not given a clear plan to follow and feel uneasy around the upper management leaders.
Communication, an listening to tool box briefs, an less of a blame culture an finding solutions
responsive leaders and can empower the team members
Stay with the facts and don't find excuses for bad decisions
Stay with the facts. Don't find excuses for wrong decision and blame it to others.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Insurance is the lowest in the county
Review from Operations Dept
The amount of vacation they give me
Review from Product Dept
The short term incentive plan.
Review from Engineering Dept
strong base pay, 6% 401k match, health savings and strong S.T.I.P when division meets goal
Review from Operations Dept
stip reward after a good year, holidays working for the best company on the planet
Review from Product Dept
It is a great package.
Review from Engineering Dept
Health Care options were great
Review from Engineering Dept
Sharing in the good times with a company wide incentive compensation. High level of 401k company match. 4 different health insurance including 2 HSA qualifies plans with company seed money.
Review from Engineering Dept
Benefits
Review from IT Dept
Health insurance. We have it.
Review from Operations Dept
Good benifit and decent pay
Review from Engineering Dept
401k package
Review from Operations Dept
Decent cash comp but poor performance has neutralized the benefit of Short Term Incentives.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Making more jobs for people that want to help and do better for the company.
Posted 17 days ago
Fair wages an jobs on the shop floor for Ranstad employees
Start looking at your management
better pay and health benefits
Being paid more then those that are only flipping burgers
After learning new skills and running a small area alone for months at a time that needed 2 people I was not given a raise and told the only way to get one was to be a team lead.
Review from Operations Dept
Competive merit based compensation. Transparent pay practices
I was appalled to find that my market worth was 30% higher for similar work, experience and education
If our managers spend more face to face time with their employees, take a proactive stance on creating fringe benefits, provide objective pay for performance incentives, and making reductions in salary or eliminating raises a last resort instead of the top 5 items.
Review from Engineering Dept
More money every year... and not just the 23 cents we get annually... when the management just above us gets 20-30K bonuses annually
Review from Operations Dept
I don't feel that my manager fully understands my skills, let alone fully leveraging them. I would like to take more responsibilities, and I believe if I do my work well the benefits will come to me.
Review from Engineering Dept
If I was paid as much, if not more then a male employee, in the same position.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Married employees have to have separate health care plans and it is expensive having two huge deductibles
More stock options for those mid level management. And better benefits than the shop floor would be nice.
Review from Customer Support Dept
We're underpaid as a whole for the amount of work, and the quality we put out
Review from Product Dept
If and when I have suggestions or ideas they are overlooked or outright shutdown because I am not in the “in crowd” with the people who do get the final say on things that effect my coworkers, area, job or myself. I work in my area everyday and know the area unlike the decision makers.
Review from Operations Dept
A global pay philosophy those outside the US are paid and valued less
They always tell you to safe and work right but they do not allow you to as we are all ways low on staff and when you get a safety issue they just swipe it under the carpet
Review from Engineering Dept
They work you too much and not enough time to be with your family. They need to pay their workers more and give them time off with their families.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Lower pay than peoria plants doing same jobs
Review from Operations Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
Some of us a super skilled and others lack the skill it takes to drive efficiency.
Posted 17 days ago
We all know our job and what it calls for us to do so no matter what we show up and to get the job done.
Hard working people that are trying to make Caterpillar a better company.
we work together as a good solid team
open discussions and focused on solving issues
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
At the caterpillar academy people are lied too, promising them jobs that dont exist, there are people working at Desford for ranstad for over three years truth
There's nothing nobody can do when you're management your management is fixing plexus plexus make it look like it's the team's fault
avoid reporting & work honest & hard to achieve the Goals & take the Path of Truth.
Lots of politics and people tend to talk behind one another's backs. It is difficult to trust your coworkers and leadership team.
Understand competing metrics and work for the common good, but there is fear of retalation or being fired if tjis approach is taken
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Caterpillar does a good job of promoting high performers within the company.
caterpillar has a lot of resources
Safety Awareness and toolbox talks
Work like balance and flexibility and customer focus
Seldom are open or honest about what goes wrong or needs improving
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Leadership needs to open their ears and take suggestions from people that are of lesser rank than them.
Posted 17 days ago
Your management there insurance Texas is committing fraud
Listen to the works who are on the floor and see the problem daily
Find ways to reduce over time. 10 hrs/ day at least and Saturdays was not very sustainable
Review from Operations Dept
Favourism is to be avoided & hard work to be Considered.
What did you like most about the interview process?
I learned on Turbocharging and engine power boost. And exactly was my first question ????
It was online thru a zoom call
Open dialogue transparency flexibility people
The people who interviewed me were actually fairly nice and patient.
Review from Operations Dept
Multiple interviewers, with a plan and discussion. over fairly quickly.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
I worked in quality I printed out Gages that were calibrated in my name and I wasn't even at work work my name's Phil hilly Gages that were calibrated in my name and I wasn't even at work work my name's Phil hilly
Create interviews that accurately ask and capture skills of the role that you are interviewing for
Actually be competent. I lead my own interview.
Review from Operations Dept
stop TSI interviews, painful interviewing for three hours.
What makes you most happy at work?
Welding, putti g my hood on and mastering my craft.
Posted 17 days ago
My coworkers are a good bunch to work with.
caterpillar is well known company
Am highly recognized for my hard work.
Getting the job done to move on to the next project
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Communication and not short staffing. Also it is very disheartening to know that because I'm gay my time request offs get taken less seriously and denied more than my straight co workers
Review from Operations Dept
We are treated poorly by executive management. They don’t care about what we contribute and are fast to criticize and make changes without understanding the impact on their e
Review from Engineering Dept
Constant favoratism, very little training, toxic culture, constantly raising work quotas etc
I know it seems cliche, but employees generally understand that we work at a publicly traded company. But stop running the company based on shareholders and start focusing on the customers would be a good start. Sacrificing quality and employee safety for shareholders does not seem sustainable.
Wrong leadership in key positions. Gotta get experience in there to train those positions before handing over.
Review from Customer Support Dept
What do you like best about your company?
I am inspired by the company's mission.
Review from HR Dept
Global impact of the work we do
Review from Marketing Dept
Their investment in everyone's safety
Review from Operations Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
I'd like the internal brand to be more consistent.
Review from HR Dept