Friendly place to work with great coworkers - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Feb 7, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Garmin is a friendly place to work. Most of the people I work with are more than willing to help out when you ask. I say most because their has been a select few who I know will immediatly say I do not know with out even thinking of your questions. I even ran into someone who told me, "I am to busy." Those people are few and far between and you learn to steer clean of them. There are reasons why Garmin as a company has been so sucessfull and its because of its quality employees. No dress code is nice.

Cons

Need a better flex time policy. An 8am to 5pm with a one hour lunch from noon to 1pm is old school and outdated. Your employees will get more done and do a better job if Garmin was flexible with hours. Some of us drag in the morning but excell in the afternoon. Let us work more in the afternoon and less in the morning.

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Cons

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Pros

Good benefits and work life balance. It's a good culture and I've never worked at a place where your immediate peers are this helpful and pleasant to work with, even across teams and offices. If you want to just come in and do just what is required for your job and go home with the knowledge you have a stable job, this is the perfect place to work. I'd only recommend working here if you just want a job, but don't care about a career.

Cons

There is poor career advancement, especially if you aren't male. Leadership does not care about leading people. The RTO has made working here less appealing. The excuse that you can't collaborate unless you are in the same building makes no sense when you work with people in 6 different countries. It is about control and appearances, all due to incredibly poor senior leadership strategies. The pay is also low and so is the quality of the software you work on. Leadership likes to talk quality, but they like fast and cheap. They will not support you in actual software quality nor implement changes to improve it. The same issues happen over and over without improvement.

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