Company going backwards - Project Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

3.0
Jun 7, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great salary and benefits. People are great to work with and the company helps you if you want to grow or change roles.

Cons

The company is going backwards in terms of progress. It began in late 2024 with their reversal of DEI polices. Then announced a week before Christmas, while most people were already on vacation, that Resource Industries would be returning to mandatory 5 days a week in office starting in Feb 2025. It all felt very off-putting because they never sent any written communication about this new policy, and when the Vice President (Tim Crane) was asked directly if we would be getting written communication about the change in a town hall meeting, we were told directly that written communication would NOT be sent and to discuss it further with your individual manager (who when asked, also didn't know what was going on). Then in April 2025 a new CEO steps in (Joe Creed) and now the entire company (100k+ employees) is returning to mandatory 5 days a week in the office starting June 2025. The company has always put focus in the past on having a great work life balance and this is emphasised on annual employee surveys.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- New management pulled a 180 on remote work and is now less flexible than pre-covid. - Decisions are made at very top, and nobody actually dealing with systems/programs/products has a clue until you're told in a meeting - micromanagement from the c-suite. People with VP in their title looking dumbfounded in a meeting is now commonplace. - Instability. Teams vanished, people who have been here decades let go in a 10 pm email, positions not getting backfilled, "what would you say it is that you do here" surveys circulating, combined with new management's approach, has everyone on edge and makes collaboration impossible as people hoard their responsibilities and knowledge for job security.

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