Workload varies a lot from team to team - Advanced Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Mar 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

1. Most people are friendly. 2. International team work.

Cons

1. Pay is low 2. Depends on team. May need to work overtime very often but there is little compensation and reward. 3. Factory-style workplace. Boss in Taiwan is mainly reponsibile for production, not R&D. He tends to focus on cost reduction. Your benefits may be sacrificed. 4. Need to go to office by 8am. Earlier than the average in this industry. 5. Higher-ups hope you to learn and do everything.

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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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