Pros
The people who work at Deere are great people, up and down the org chart. They are what make coming into work fun.
Cons
The CEO has made a number of head-scratchingly, moral-depleting moves that fly in the face of 40 years of management tradition. Specifically: they may ask extra of engineering staff, but they never have layoffs, including the 80's farm crisis. Well, not anymore. First the CEO decided to have a job-shedding reorg and gave everyone 6 months of warning... in June 2020. That was a level of stress I didn't need that year. He botched the return to office rollout so badly that even HR didn't know what to do. And most recently the company pulled in 7 billion in income and still they have layoffs... because the business is bad? This company used to brag about how they invest in R&D when other companies lay off, creating the agricultural-technological behemoth that it is today. Now the guy at the top seems more interested in whatever Boston Consulting Group tells him, reinventing the company into another soulless corporation. I can see the demoralization go up to vice presidents. They all know this dude is turning us into Boeing.