An average place to work, fair benefits, low wages, good for beginners - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Aug 1, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A great place to work fresh out of school. Easy and laid back for the most part. Company expectation is generally 40 hours/week. Some good people to work with. Benefits are acceptable and have some nice features. Great employee pricing on products.

Cons

Pay is very low and based on Kansas salaries. Company thinks your biggest benefit is the right to work for them. No promotion or advancement opportunities. NO opportunity to get recognition or significant pay increase. Standard 'merit' increases at review cycle are the same for everybody. Company thinks they are innovating by integrating existing technology from other products. Management promotion is based on the good ol' boy network. Focuses hiring in cheaper new grads, not experienced employees. Company has lack of trust of employees.

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Cons

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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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