John Deere reviews

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.

John Deere is overall a good company, but the Construction and Forestry (C&F) division has one of the most racist cultures among Deere's divisions. I have worked for other divisions and they are not even comparable with the C&F division. Since Deere's main core business is in the agriculture industry and as they don't have a good market standpoint in the construction industry, the working environment here is completely different. They are struggling to have a strong profit share and would put all the pressure for beating the competition in the construction industry (with leading companies like CAT, CNH, Volvo, etc.) on young engineers. They think they are the best in the world and would say this every day to new hires and make them feel they are working for the best company in the world. If you want to work here be prepared for a harsh and unprofessional work environment. You would feel like you are stuck in a jail (both in work and location). 1. Lack of diversity 2. No work/life balance 3. Micromanagement is a favorite attitude for managers in here 4. Location is horrible (especially if you are non-white American) 5. Gossips flying all around the company 6. Unreasonable deadlines for projects 7. Discrimination based on your skin color 8. No career growth (you have to stay here for maybe a decade to get a promotion) 9. Threat for being terminated from management 10. HR is not any help to the employees at all 11. Very very old school 12. Lack of investment in employees (They can be very cheap and greedy in training and travels)