Great people, products and worklife balance, not so great salary and benefits - Software Engineer I Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Jan 9, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My team members are great people to work with for the most part. Garmin's products are also extremely impactful for a lot of people. 401k match is great

Cons

The salary is below market value. Vacation policy is staggered to benefit those that stay a really long time at the company (thus newcomers don't get as many vacation days). No yearly bonus.

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Cons

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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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