Pros
The money, that’s it. Pay is good, but used to be better. Reorg led to many people getting twice the workload for the same pay. People that came out of the reorg with a labor grade are the “pets” of the managers. Want people to be a jack of all trades and master of none. I’m out of here as soon as I can get another job that pays similarly. Good news is that having Deere on your resume looks good, for now…
Cons
Where to start….. 1. Supervisor roles are for development only. They put people in these roles that need a factory check mark and are clueless as to how to actually manage people. 2. HR repeatedly lies to you. Move you from a position during a reorg to another lower labor grade and say they will allow you to keep your pay as it’s not your fault they restructured only to turn around a few months later and inform you that they will be lowering your grade after all. 3. Zero training. Put people in roles during the reorg that aren’t qualified, just to fill a spot, with no training. New saying from managers, who are also new and clueless, is “figure it out.” 4. Nothing runs like a Deere? True, until the warranty period is up, then they give zero cares about the customer. Literally have meetings to discuss how to get machines with known issues fixed well enough to get out of warranty so repair costs don’t hurt SVA. 5. Bonus goals are restructured yearly to make it near impossible to hit, even though the company is having record profits. 6. Want to become the Tesla of tractors. Focus is going completely on technology. Want to fix your tractor? Not happening unless you pay through the nose to have a service tech, that will probably have to call the company, come out to fix it. Giving out free JDlink subscriptions mostly so they can monitor if customers are trying to repair their own machines that they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars if not over a million for. 7. Much more, but you get the idea.