Accounting/Finance and Resource Industries a Disaster - Business Support Manager Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
5 May 2020
Recommend
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Pros

37% STIP for Salary Grades 26+... oh yeah, they cut it to zero three times over the past five years. Also, no merit raises once again!

Cons

The RI Chief Financial Officer is a disaster of a leader. He is more or so an anti-leader. He acts like a child in meetings, talks about staff behind their backs, and clings on to his "accomplishments" he did as a staff. It's almost embarrassing to watch him in meetings. You can tell he knows he is failing and is blaming things on others. He just repeats what the people above him say even if they don't make sense for RI. He's just a suck-up. It's sad. Caterpillar also constantly expects you to up and move your family. Your kid is about about to go into high school? Too bad! You are moving to Seguin, Texas to get a promotion. Three years later, off to a new factory city. I hope you enjoy factory towns! I live in Peoria and am okay with staying here, but I'll have to move my kids to go up further. Deerfield didn't really work out. Turn over has been high. They have lost very good mid-management people because of the location. Further, no one from here in Peoria wants to go up there. Also, if you are from Chicago, be expected to move to Peoria as well. CAT is in two dying industries. Oil and Mining. We need a strategy change and quick.

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Cons

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Thank you so much for taking a moment to share your experience. We are glad to hear that you had experienced a good culture and had found Caterpillar to be a great company to work with.
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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