John Deere Reviews

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Typical work locations are in remote or less developed areas of the US, I.e. not located by or in large cities. Leadership is many times promoted too fast and can create issues for those with experience but not recognized for their capability.

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Tough to get a Deere job if contingent. A lot of competition.

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Corporate based in Moline, IL. For career opportunities, you must live in Midwest US.

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Old school ways of doing things

Outdated policies on remote work

Company culture is friendly but feels like it hasn't changed since the early 90's

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Contract job so you have to go through and employment agencies which takes a % of your pay.
You dont get the benefits of core employees.

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Sometimes can feel like you aren’t working to your potential: projects are slow and you only play a very minor part of things as an Intern.

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I do not have any cons

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The vision coverage only pays for contact every other year.
Deere promotes their pay as top of the line, but it isn't the highest paying in my opinion

Employee recognition has went downhill in the last few years

Top managers are often shuffled through every 2-4 years and are groomed for higher positions leaving low level employees to fill in the gaps

If you are a contingent it can be difficult to get hired on

Deere has never laid off a Salary employee, although contracts and contingent workers have been laid off, so this isnt a completely truthful statement

The locations are mostly in Iowa/Illinois. if you want to work elsewhere good luck

They treat the Engineers like Clerks who have an increasing amount of paperwork and BS, including filling in as Supervisor

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John Deere only cares about its salaried employees and not about the people actually making the tractors. I'm sorry but how can anyone support a family on 20 dollars an hour when you have to pay 10 percent of your income towards your retirement and 10 percent of it to save for post retirement health care. All of these assembly jobs are getting harder and harder barely have time to go to the bathroom and barely make any incentive. Really makes people want to work harder when there is no incentive. Also more and more injuries are happening because people are complacent and tired from being worked so hard. I said my peace and nothing will ever get done

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The biggest con is that it is a Midwestern company doing business globally, not a global business based in the Midwest. It has all of the tools to attract and retain the highest caliber employee using Video Conferencing, Skype, etc. except that mid-level managers will only allow employees participate in virtual employment when a spouse moves or it runs out of office space. This makes it very hard to advance a career unless you are physically willing to move to the Midwest at some point. The majority of employees went to the same colleges and live in the Midwest, this does not offer a lot of diverse perspectives from other parts of the country or other nations, especially at leadership levels.