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Updated May 28, 2023

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Found 4,846 of over 6K reviews
4.1
84% Recommend to a Friend
85% Approve of CEO

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4.1
84%
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85%
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John May
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment

Pros
  • "good work life balance and industry standard compensation(in 389 reviews)
  • "Big company so benefits are good(in 310 reviews)
  • "Treat you well and good pay(in 285 reviews)
  • "For the most part the people are great to work with and like a family.(in 243 reviews)
  • "Good culture and positive moral(in 175 reviews)
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  1. 5.0
    Current Employee

    Love John Deere

    May 16, 2023 - Marketing 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great culture, great people, great pay

    Cons

    None, none, none, none, none

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  2. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 5 years

    Nepotism at its finest

    Feb 24, 2023 - Manufacturing Engineer in Waterloo, IA
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    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.

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  4. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Good company to work for

    May 22, 2023 - Data Scientist in Chicago, IL
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    - Great people to work - Good place to raise a family

    Cons

    - Hard to move up after a certain level - Low compensation

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  5. 3.0
    Current Employee, more than 1 year

    Great company, okay role.

    May 21, 2023 - Quality Engineer 
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great culture. Stable job. Great benefits

    Cons

    Very tactical role. You will be working on factory floor.

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  6. 1.0
    Current Employee, more than 3 years

    BEWARE

    May 25, 2023 - Picker/Packer in Dallas, TX
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    My coworkers were nice most of the time.

    Cons

    will try to soft fire you if you report racism

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  7. 4.0
    Former Employee, more than 8 years

    Good company in Mid-west

    May 16, 2023 - Senior Engineer in Moline, IL
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Good work life balance Work challenges are good

    Cons

    Limited growth opportunities specially in the core mechanical engineering domain

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  8. 4.0
    Current Employee

    Overall, very good place to be

    May 4, 2023 - Data Science in Quad Cities
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    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.

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  9. 3.0
    Former Employee

    Great

    May 17, 2023 - Project Manager in Dallas, TX
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    Great culture, great environment. Great

    Cons

    Nothing to note at this time

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  10. 1.0
    Former Employee, more than 1 year

    Greenway Equipment is a joke

    May 14, 2023 - Field Service Technician in England, AR
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    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.

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  11. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 8 years

    Get in line with the cult or what your back

    Nov 21, 2022 - Senior Systems Engineer in Moline, IL
    Recommend
    CEO Approval
    Business Outlook

    Pros

    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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    9 people found this review helpful
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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.

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, John Deere employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at John Deere. 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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