Toxic Management full of favoratism - Senior Certification Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Dec 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Good work-life balance

Cons

- Management works with friends and favoratism first. - Dont care about people to improve and manage and only with themselves. -Cutting corners in certification. - Is manager or lead for salary and not for the teams they suppose to lead. - Engineer are pointed to Garmin values but managers/lead seems are excluded from it Career opportunities based if management likes you and if you not a pain for them above competence - Pay raise no based on equal performance but engineer with lower salary get more raise then experience with higher salary (social leveling of salary) - Incompent project planning and at the end engineers at fault not management

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5.0
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Great, and I mean great benefits.

Cons

Poor local culture, everybody is in their own clicks and don't deviate from them. Not a huge amount of office friendliness. Not many team building exercises, and qa gets left out of alot. If you're not a developer, you will have a yard time socially. Coffee is the worst I've had at a company ever. Return to office was not handled right, and the wfh policies were written very vague by a local manager, but what they actually wanted was very specific and was not communicated at all(avg of 1 per month over the course of a year). This lead to a problem where I was denied a wfh request to grieve a dead pet because I used wfh 2 weeks earlier to register a new car ( that I got solely for work commute)

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