Dull cubicle farm - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

1.0
Oct 5, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They pay well for the area and the benefits package is the best around. The people are friendly and there are lots of out of work activities arranged.

Cons

They had the audacity to advertise themselves as the "Google of the mid-west" but nothing could be further from the truth. This is a grey, old fashioned cubicle farm where employees clock in at 8, go through hours of pointless meetings and clock out at 5pm on the dot with barely any work being done. If you do try to get any work done you will be hit by roadblocks at every turn. Usually fighting their out-dated internal software and practices but it can also be peers and management expressing shock (and disappointment!) at your progress for "making them look bad". I didn't last long here. It felt like being strangled and suppressed, dying a little piece every day until you join the ranks of the Garmin zombies trudging through to retirement and a gold watch.

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