Design Engineer - Design Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

1.0
Nov 21, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Training, great co-workers, flex hours.

Cons

locations, overload of work, getting stuck in one job and cannot move into another group without quiting, getting stuck working for a bosshole, cat in the last decade has slipped to be a place that does not care about its employees at all, will layoff at the drop of a dime anyone no matter how long you've worked there. better off with CNH or Deere, contract designer make more than direct employees., only get paid once a month, have to consider annual bonus as part of salary otherwise does not pay enough, starts everybody out as entry level no matter your experience. don't get a company laptop because you will be expected to work from home and on vacation.

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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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