Pretty bad or no work ethics seen in Senior technical staff /leads - Electronics Engineer Caterpillar Employee Review

2.0
Dec 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

somewhat better pay ..(certainly not the best in electronics industry)

Cons

- Too much of communal biasing seen at all levels - Senior technical community(not talking about the management here) need to be more respectful about the other younger professionals.From what I have seen, most of the technical people with experience of about 8- 10 years, they are literally interfering in other's(younger ppl) jobs (even if it is not part of their job role) and they vent out their frustration about not making it to the management levels on the younger professionals. They are ruining the inclusion factor and also the team climate and then they try to put the blame on management - Senior technical staff (around 8- 10 years of experience) have very sub-standard motivating skills and lack mentoring skills completely.They also don't like young guys whose communication skills are better than them as most of them were earlier working in small companies ..totally incompetitive mind set among the senior technical leads..some of them even try to de-motivate the agency employees while posing a very good image of themselves to the management

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