Pros
Pay slightly leads local industry (except electrical/software) Feeding the world is important Strong brand loyalty in US Intern and development program roles are great for new employees
Cons
Recent reorg degraded the sense of long term job security with head count reductions firing good and bad employees indiscriminately. Management messaging of smart reorg being great and that they wouldn't do anything different keeps driving employee surveys into the ground. (Most US employees have just stopped filling in out.) Flattened structure means less advancement opportunity but hasn't given any more ownership or autonomy. Fired "reduced" team members mean remaining people do twice the work. Bonus requirements keep going up for low and mid employees (bonuses are halved). However executive pay based on stock options goes up whenever people are fired "reduced". Pension and Healthcare have been reduced like the broader market. *Join Deere with eyes wide open, but don't count on them and buy a house. Check with your new potential team for a toxic group or workload.*