Cartography Technician - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

3.0
May 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, Work/Life Balance, On site gym, and rec area, cafeteria, flexible hours for coming and going.

Cons

Location, Olathe is pretty boring and traffic from KC to HQ is awful. Work is pretty tedious and repetitive, no learning or progression of your skills as using outdated hand rolled version for cartography software. Sometimes it was so slow you struggled to find and work and look busy. A lot of the people working there are pretty demoralized and unenthusiastic. Relatively low hourly pay.

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