Pros
- Be a guiding factor in the course of a 180 year-old company (John Deere) that respects your opinion - Rapid iteration is favored and rewarded - Freedom and encouragement to own your role and create - Generous work from home policy (mixed with ample opportunity, if not expectation, to travel, not just to Iowa) - Lots of career growth opportunities in almost every direction - Impact a massive meaningful industry, agriculture — and potentially others like construction, forestry. You will be shocked how much Deere touches
Cons
- Working with a well-respected place like Deere means systems meant to ensure quality. LOTs of systems. You can potentially influence once you understand them but patience and understanding is a necessary virtue here - Guidance can be hard to come by at times. Management expects a lot of you, you will not be handheld - Lot of remote workers. Santa Clara office is beautiful but feels empty — perennial problem, might not get solved until company expands - Career growth is self-guided — you need to volunteer for the "fires," the path is rarely trailblazed for you. HR Is great but it is not their job to guide you up the ranks like at a FAANG