AGCO reviews

Many managers either had poor managerial skills and/or they were managing an area they had little experience in. Many employees with great skills were relegated to "support" positions because they didn't play the right political games, so were unable to really influence strategic direction (which is all over the place and changes frequently). And in the absence of product value, they are always playing a pricing game to try to boost sales. Although they claim to know the farm equipment industry has cycles (7 years or so), they were "surprised" by the one in 2014 and laid off a lot of employees in the 3rd & 4th quarter. Of course, it was the employees who actually did the work (not the clueless managers) who lost their jobs.

The agricultural industry took a nasty hit in 2014 and the 2015 budget is tight so salary offers may reflect the reduced budget. The IT department is reclusive with very few social events. If it weren't for the CIO, Sheryl Bunton, leading a social gathering, many of us would have never been introduced to 3/4 of the other IT staff. IT is understaffed, overburdened and not adequately trained to keep up with all of the technologies and systems that IT or the Business purchase and put into production. The PMO was placed under Architecture due to 2014 layoffs and PMs and mid and upper level managers waste hours every week supporting review processes which provide little value. The recently approved move to SAP is slowing gaining momentum and is still in its infancy. In five years I have seen few internal promotions. The annual appraisal system is like most corporations. No one can provide objective criteria for scoring top rankings so no one ever does.