Caterpillar reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(7,295 total reviews)

Joe Creed

69% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Caterpillar has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,295 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Caterpillar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Apr 27, 2025
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Pros

Work is good. Lot of responsibilities are given.

Cons

But long timers to hide their shortcomings do lot of politics. Lot of feminists around and upper management protects them since they are long timers. They play with the job of people by threatening harassment complaints. Advice to inquire about the team before joining.

2.0
Jan 2, 2016
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Pros

Decent pay, good work life balance, good work culture except chennai offices Good place to work for women as they have good policies on avoiding sexual harassment.

Cons

No growth and development in Chennai offices Bad work culture here unlike in USA They always run after the hours rather than focussing on employee growth and development, no timely promotions.. Oppurtunities are given to only Tamilians, No diversity no inclusion...if you are a non tamilian you should forget about you career growth Managers and supervisors uplift their sub ordinates only those who worship them as gods and does personal favours......like get food for them, pay bills for them, give gifts, This is definitely not a place if you are ambitious... People who still work here are those who are either not ambitious or lack in skills that outside market wants, few members are exceptional though. Currently Cat is going throught rough case until 2018, but this is not uncommon to US over past several years. Managers at chennai offices does emotional blackmail their subordinates ....Cat never sponsers H1B visas,they sponsor only L1B , H3 and J1 visas, onsite travels are limited to only 1 year even though project requires us to be there which is pathetic, and they give those only their Tamil pets which is disasterous . You are very lucky if you get a promotion under 3years. Interal depart movements are just for a name sake and never happened transparently. So please do not expect that job change within CAT is as easy as possible , this is true especially in India that too in chennai.

2.0
Sep 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I could See Interview process is ok,

Cons

Caterpillar IT Division : Bangalore 1.Caterpillar Ask to Submit Original Documents of Last Company Offer & Relieving Letter, for that they will not provide any proof too. 2. It's something that Diplomatic Bond between Company & Employee for Experience Candidates. 3. As like this, no where in any company asks for it. 4. HR are really poor in explaining joining formalities. 5. If candidate ask any question which they dont have answer , HR says simply says its Company Policy. 6. Every HR has a sentence that " Feel Free to get in touch for any Doubts" in every mail , but a candidate reach out they will never respond, that the Beauty of them. 7. They have diff Freshers in HR team like sourcing, Interview scheduler,post Interview Executives & pre joining Followers, but if you try to reach them they cannot explain bcoz they don't know the process. As like this they have many problems while joining itself. Later after Joining Caterpillar i personally feel no respect is given to Human Values. Only Values given to Girls **** Hope you can U.stand

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