Good leadership and top and bottom - middle needs improvement - 6 Sigma Black Belt Caterpillar Employee Review

4.0
24 Dec 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay for the location (Central Illinois), good opportunities to move up - high performers are noticed and rewarded. I have had a good experience overall with moving up and being rewarded. Also a lot of opportunity (in good times) to move around the country and world... both in travel and in relocation.

Cons

Low performers hang around and get away with doing nothing. This has an adverse effect on the rest of the employees, as well, as they end up picking up the slack and seeing nothing get done to right the problems. There is a serious issue with communication in the high-to-mid management levels - the very top (VP and CEO) and bottom (line supervisors) do a great job.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
30 Apr 2026
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Pros

You are treated with autonomy, dignity, and respect. It is assumed you know how to do your job and are given the trust and means to do so. Compensation is above market value. Uncapped professional growth if you know how to play your cards right.

Cons

Working at Burger King and living from my car in Northern Michigan during the middle of winter was preferable to working on-site in Peoria. Project work was inherently meaningless and dictated almost entirely by the caste system this company has in Central, IL. My relocation had absolutely nothing to do with the role at hand and was a power play by management to get me to become a bleed-yellow Peorian in the CAT-corporate social club. The company loyalty here is absolutely disgusting and has nothing to do with the viability of the brand or product. Everyone is enamored with the status and wealth they've attained on account of not performing hard, manual, life-threatening labor. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually cares about what goes on in the defense division or addressing the geopolitical anomalies between the former headquarters and the new business direction of the company.

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