Fun innovative company that does well hiring well balanced employees. - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

5.0
Jun 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Garmin is a fun, innovative company that does it's best to be open to progressive ideas. The work that I have done at the company has been very interesting as the GPS navigational devices market is blooming and starting to get a lot of attention. The company puts a priority on hiring very balanced employees who have technical skills, social skills, and practical skills. I feel like this helps a lot with team cohesion and in creating user focused products.

Cons

It is not very simple to transfer within the company to other business sectors. It would be great to have more R & D within the subsidiary companies of Garmin.

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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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