John Deere Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"A great place to work."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Good work environment."

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"No negative comments."

"Our Department was outsourced to India so non of us were happy about losing our job one week before Christmas"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"My co-workers & my direct boss"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Being let go a week before Christmas without any warning."

"John Deere is a very Stable employeer with great opportunities."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Loved managing large staff 100+"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Was required to lay off 29 employees due to the drought of 2007."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Great place to work."

"Wonderful experience"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"I was given opportunities to grow with the company and my ambition was rewarded with greater responsibilities."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"John Deere Landscapes is a good place to build a career"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"The pay was somewhat low compared to similar positions in the industry."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue developing your best and brightest human resources"

"Given the name this company lives up to it's nameand product."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Great resume builder,also the classes and siminars ,training was outstanding."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just apply yourself physicaly and mentaly"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Sometimes it actualy was a little to corparate meaning your ideas didn't matter,unles corparate approved."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the customers and employees more."

"entertaining"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"It was my first sales job so it was very exciting to really get out and meet customers"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Limited growth oppurtunities"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Being conservative is ok but don't hamstring your sales force"

"Fulfilling."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Lot of opportunity to learn and know new things, good work culture,"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"As an Intern Engineer, I didn't have much independence in terms of implementing changes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Having mentors for interns to work with"

"Best company I have worked for!"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"The people, their commitment to quality (and innovation), a great working environment, and people are outstanding and strive for excellence!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you can get a hold of the Deere Employee Manual before an interview you will learn about the companies commitment to its shareholders, employees, and the products they build - if you are a good fit - you will do fine in an interview ... but maintain your composure!"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"The company is located in the midwest and having moved around the country a lot - I think this hurts the company in its ability to attract top talent."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"RIFs are just like anything else, a cost of doing business, and you always handle them well - however - I would setup a program/effort to capture some of the experience that walks out the door - so the loss isn't as enormous as it has been over the last couple of cycles."

"Felt like I was being squezed"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Ran intire shop."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"only if you really need the money"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"No chance for advancment"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Must asked for change"

"not a good company to work for"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"customers were super"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"do not do it"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"to much personal & sexual harassment within the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"clean house"

"A Great plact to work"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"The environment and people."

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Nothing"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get more involved with their employees"

"Adventurous design goals using GPS tracking data bring excitement to the workplace."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Opportunity to build automated GPS driven vehicle guidance to the farming industry. The challange of working on embedded software with agressive goals in a rugged environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"A long term of experience in building embedded code will be attractive and a thourough knowledge of C++ will be necessary. Use of the STL library will be a plus."

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"A culture of complacency and non-communication pervades the company. Archaic testing sofware designs dodder along on the command line and fail to provide either interactive screens or the ability to review the data intelligently. Inadaquate control design produces tracking ringing responses that a junior designer would recognize as due to incomplete tuning of the tractor mechanical parameters to the vehicle velocity and target track. Shop management refuses to admit that a more successful design is needed despite the evidence. Shop management intefers with access to the design code needed to complete the assignment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Top management is capable and competent but must stop listening to subordinate leaders who have only excuses for many missed timelines and a design that fails to meet the company product goals. Introduce a seconday developer to deliver a visual simulation the supports the existing embedded code design and get error plots that everyone else has moved to using in the last 30 years."

"Couldn't handle abusive environment, quit after 8 months without another jco"

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"Benefits"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Avoid company unless desperate for employment"

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Manager and Users"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Remove my manager from supervising human beings"

"Great place to work, layoffs not so good."

What do you like about working at John Deere?

"The hours were good, the pay was great, the people cared."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just speak the truth."

What don't you like about working at John Deere?

"Layoffs, the whole bumping ordeal."