Oddly different across functional groups - Program Coordinator Garmin Employee Review

1.0
Sep 27, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good health insurance, decent 401k match, can wear completely unprofessional clothing and fit in (cargo shorts never died at Garmin), decent food in the cafeteria

Cons

I never get a chance to talk to my manager, career development / growth isn't even a consideration, many aspects of our more complicated products and systems are poorly documented, nothing is staffed properly, things always feel chaotic and unmanaged. Have found moving to other areas extremely difficult. Ways that different areas are managed seems very different group to group and function to function.

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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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