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  1. 3.0
    Current Employee, more than 10 years

    Will pay to get you but won't pay to keep you!

    23 Mar 2023 - Staff Engineer in Waterloo, IA
    Recommend
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    Pros

    Work Life Balance, Stability, 401K matching.

    Cons

    New Manager and Org Changes pretty much every two years. Good Ole Boy Management. Managers are not Leaders. Pay Raises don't keep up with inflation. Little room for career growth at higher levels.

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  1. 5.0
    Current Employee

    Love John Deere

    16 May 2023 - Marketing 
    Recommend
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    Pros

    Great culture, great people, great pay

    Cons

    None, none, none, none, none

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  2. 3.0
    Former Employee, more than 5 years

    Nepotism at its finest

    24 Feb 2023 - Manufacturing Engineer in Waterloo, IA
    Recommend
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    Pros

    Decent salary and benefits for the area.

    Cons

    Nepotism plays a big role in filling job roles. Value experience far more than education. Manager’s opinions are emphasized higher than your own experience when applying. Turnover is high from employees becoming burnt out from wearing more than one hat. Gaslight employees into doing work out of your scope to get higher performance ratings. No accountability for bad managers, so people quiet quit for better managers. If you don’t fit into the toxic work culture, you will stand out. Even though they have DEI and safe space trainings, you are not valued if you go against the grain. Very hard to collaborate with arrogant one track minded engineers who never had to compromise. Operations runs very poorly and is the biggest inefficiency of the business while they shrink capital for new equipment. Only some managers knew how to manage people while most were incompetent and were milquetoast puppets.

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    8 people found this review helpful

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