John Deere Lead Software Engineer salaries in India (Updated 2025)

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...earn new things. Work life balance is somewhat good compared to other companies. Yearly bonus is good.

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It was good before but recent org level changes and layoffs changed everything. Most of the people who were working for Deere for last 15-20 years were being sacked. A employee centric company turned it's culture towards money centric.

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Excellent work life balance. Huge opportunities for learning and grow technically. Incentives are not on employee performance, that's on company performance and disbursals are always high.

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Salary structure is too complicated. Peer comparison happens with manufacturing companies. Company is not a pay master, always a median payer. Onsite opportunities are negligible.

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Work life balance Learning, As we have access to acloudguru, plularsight and other sites as well.

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...hether it will work for requirements or not). Work is not that much challenging. Decision Making from upper management No Promotion and less salary hikes No appreciation for work

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1: Big Brand name 2: On time salary 3: Learning opportunities

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Talking as a C++/ QT resource 1: To create visibility, you need to do a lot more than just your regular work. Like Contributing in different initiatives, Participating in Hackathons like events 2: Only 1 or 2 QT resource in a team compared to 10 controller side resources. Hence, QT resource is most of the time overloaded with work. 3: Some internal politics related to work assignment

Likes

1. Awesome work culture 2. Great Managers 3. Best on work life balance 4. No Micro Management in work

Dislikes

1. Delay in promotions 2. Company will take people at higher package from outside but not give hike to people already in team 3. Even contracts earns more the its employees in some cases