Good place to work, but management needs direction - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Feb 28, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There is a relaxed atmosphere here with lots of friendly people who are proficient at what they do. Good compensation for a fun job.

Cons

There is little innovation in new product offerings. Also, not much information is shared between different business segments (automotive products, marine, fitness, aviation). This does not provide a polished, unified brand image. Experience is not effectively transfered between engineers, which is a problem given the large proportion of young engineers.

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5.0
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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
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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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