John Deere reviews

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.

As a 20+ year employee, I have seen many changes in company culture. Until approximately three years ago employees were treated with dignity and respect. Their was a familial feel to the working environment. With recent major reorgs and an IT digital and Agile transformation, employees have been left hanging in limbo wondering if their jobs will continue to exist. This has created a culture of fear and distrust and if an employee is not engaged in office politics or is not a member of particular "cliques" they are often overlooked. Instead, underqualified or unqualified employees who are engaged in these are given these jobs instead. My opinion is that Deere is no longer a premier place to work unless you are a recent college grad.