A great place to work but not to earn - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Jun 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Build cool products 2. Can see every phase of product development 3. Great benefits

Cons

1. Cannot grow without sycophancy 2. Growing into leadership roles are based on a 'Management By Strengths' personality test. Which was taken when you join the company. Unless you are in red category you cannot become a leader 3. Not so great Compensation 4. Inconsistent performance appraisals

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Pros

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Cons

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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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