Garmin is a good company, but cartography was drudgery - Cartography Technician Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Nov 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice benefits, fantastic discount on products and I loved that they paid for so many race entries.

Cons

*Cartography department, not Garmin as a whole* - the work atmosphere was depressing. No collaboration and I never felt like I was part of a team. Work was isolating and you were always being compared to your counterparts. People didn't stay long. Most of my colleagues lasted 1-3 years before leaving.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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