Good place to work, but not to grow - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Aug 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Great 401k match • "Free" HDHP health insurance option with HSA • 45% employee discount • Usually laid back and most people are nice, work is not too stressful • Currently allowing remote work (but they were not accepting of this before)

Cons

• Outdated tech depending on your team and department. • Performance or profit sharing bonuses are non-existent. Everyone gets a small amount for Christmas (which I appreciate), but nothing more. • 5 year vesting period on 401k. • There is no incentive for hard work. High performance won't get you more than a 4-5% raise. Work from lazy/slow workers gets passed on to the performers. • You will get stuck doing the same things and you generally will not continue learning and growing at an acceptable pace for the tech industry. • Many managers are great but some are clueless and not accepting of anything that does not go their way. • Some managers pass off a significant amount of their own work and responsibilities to their team (but some are great and take on more responsibility than they really should).

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5.0
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Pros

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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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