Pretty good work, but repetitive - Software Engineer-II Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Jun 5, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Young colleagues, everyone is active and the people are really fun to work with. The work is sometimes challenging, there is generally new stuff coming along all the time. Benefits are good, gym and race reimbursement.

Cons

Endless release cycle, some days it feels like it won't end, and it doesn't. Expectation of overtime work. Minimal raises per year (~inflation), no bonus. Can easily get stuck in the same pattern. Too many meetings some days to get anything done at all. Easy to burn out.

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5.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

Cons

Questionable C-Suite directives/policies. A lot of bureaucracy, and it's difficult to move new ideas forward.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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