Mostly good people working but horrible higher ups. - Anonymous employee John Deere Employee Review

2.0
Mar 25, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Camaraderie, coworker relations , can’t say anything more positive.

Cons

Terrible management, horrible tech support because they contract most of their I.T. And service desk is horrendous. Corporate does not know how the facilities are run and put technologies and other things without asking the people who are working if that would work and without any previous testing in real circumstances not in a test facility. They want their contractors to do the same work as Deere employees for less pay and no benefits. Keep changing priorities and adding things that make no sense in practice. Favoritism from management with some employees. Management keeps asking for feedback we give it but it falls in deaf ears.they make so much money and can’t pay contractors fair pay and benefits. And the infrastructure is laughable for such a huge company. Security is a joke they change people every month, not a single armed guard. Entrances are keycard locked but rarely any security if it’s not the main entrance or Foundry entrance. Any disgruntled employee can come in one of those entrances and do whatever he/she wants.

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Pros

Interesting problems and good access to latest tools to do the job. Motivated coworkers

Cons

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