Nightmare for International Employees - Horrible Para Legal Department - Senior Software Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
29 Jan 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Recognized Brand Name. Good comeback after the drought in 2008/2009/2010

Cons

This place can kill your career growth esp for new international employees. They take clear advantage and force most employees to stay in same job with no promotion for as long as possible (sometimes 10 years) on the pretext of GC. They will keep delaying it as much as possible. Once application goes through (after 5 years or so) they will restrict you from moving as Govt says not to move until GC is complete. The paralegal department is a joke ... they have absolutely no clue of what they are doing most of the time.

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Cons

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Pros

Good health insurance and benefits, good yearly bonuses. The pay is good.

Cons

They are enforcing returning to office by any means necessary. They have lost many high-quality producers who have refused to relocate or refuse to come in. Here's the kicker - they are requiring in-person attendance at the Chicago office and there aren't even enough desks for everyone. It would be a literal fire hazard if we all came into the Chicago office at the same time, M-F, during business hours. No one knows how or if they are going to actually enforce this. Cost of gas is insane, Joe doesn't care about the workers. Or the work for that matter. It's obvious this is a soft layoff, they have made a bunch of people quit. Their internal design agency is falling apart, lots of people have quit, not only because of return to office but because of the toxic politics, favoritism, and lack of direction and accountability. Mediocre workers are allowed to keep their jobs ONLY because of their ability to put their bodies in a chair and work in-person. The other relocation option HR gave besides Chicago was Peoria. No one wants to live in Peoria for any reason whatsoever, be for real.

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