John Deere Reviews
Updated May 28, 2023
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- "They tell you that you are another engineer but some managers have treat you like a child" (in 81 reviews)
- "conservative company and leadership, although passing through an organizational change." (in 37 reviews)
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- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great culture, great people, great pay
Cons
None, none, none, none, none
- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Nepotism at its finest
Feb 24, 2023 - Manufacturing Engineer in Waterloo, IARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Decent salary and benefits for the area.
Cons
Nepotism plays a big role in filling job roles. Value experience far more than education. Manager’s opinions are emphasized higher than your own experience when applying. Turnover is high from employees becoming burnt out from wearing more than one hat. Gaslight employees into doing work out of your scope to get higher performance ratings. No accountability for bad managers, so people quiet quit for better managers. If you don’t fit into the toxic work culture, you will stand out. Even though they have DEI and safe space trainings, you are not valued if you go against the grain. Very hard to collaborate with arrogant one track minded engineers who never had to compromise. Operations runs very poorly and is the biggest inefficiency of the business while they shrink capital for new equipment. Only some managers knew how to manage people while most were incompetent and were milquetoast puppets.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Good company to work for
May 22, 2023 - Data Scientist in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
- Great people to work - Good place to raise a family
Cons
- Hard to move up after a certain level - Low compensation
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great culture. Stable job. Great benefits
Cons
Very tactical role. You will be working on factory floor.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
My coworkers were nice most of the time.
Cons
will try to soft fire you if you report racism
- Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Good company in Mid-west
May 16, 2023 - Senior Engineer in Moline, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Good work life balance Work challenges are good
Cons
Limited growth opportunities specially in the core mechanical engineering domain
- Current Employee★★★★★
Overall, very good place to be
May 4, 2023 - Data Science in Quad CitiesRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Good pay and health care. Incredible retirement benefits (company contributes 14% of salary if the employee contributes 6%). Very friendly environment.
Cons
Vacation days take a long time to accrue to the point where it’s similar to data science positions at other companies.
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great culture, great environment. Great
Cons
Nothing to note at this time
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Greenway Equipment is a joke
May 14, 2023 - Field Service Technician in England, ARRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Health insurance and vision to include dental
Cons
Management is poor. Service department has it's favorites. Poor pay, and unrealistic goals. Only place I have ever worked, were a technician is punished for lack of company training.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Get in line with the cult or what your back
Nov 21, 2022 - Senior Systems Engineer in Moline, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
401k benefit is great (10% for 6% match), most of the time the people you work with are genuine, work flexibility, and working for a global market leader. Great company to have on your resume especially right now...my advice if you work there apply out while you can. Best part of leaving is you finally see how the company. My advice to new hires. Take advantage of the loop holes in the STAR interview process. Switch platforms for each promotion every 18 months you'll be SG8 in 3.5 years post EDP. Without actually contributing anything of value for 12-16 months of the 3.5 years.
Cons
If you love meetings to plan meetings this is your place! The amount of wasted engineering time in meetings is comical with the amount of busy work reports/ tracking middle management requires. Camouflaged micro-management Other reviews summed it up perfectly...pay becomes stagnant and the rave amongst "woke" management is diversity so good luck if your a white, Indian, or eastern asian male in engineering looking to further your career. Middle management is just a bunch of "yes men/ women" but that's corporate America. Brown nose until you make it.
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John Deere Reviews FAQs
John Deere has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 5,966 reviews left anonymously by employees. 84% of employees would recommend working at John Deere to a friend and 79% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.
84% of John Deere employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated John Deere 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at John Deere to be culture, career development, benefits and the cons to be management .
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