One of the best in the Midwest - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Aug 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture. Great work-life balance. Great benefits. They have really great people working there and produce really cool products.

Cons

Despite Garmin’s great benefits, they aren’t always willing to pay a person what they’re worth. Simply compare your salary to the national average. Or worse, compare your salary to what you’d make on the east or west coast. They also don’t incentivize people to excel with a obvious bonus structure. The people that are passionate about their jobs will always do a good job, but others will see this as an excuse to come in and do the bare minimum. Can be frustrating. BUT! This also reduces the “dog-eat-dog” impulse that can be present in other companies.

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5.0
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Pros

Great company to work for. Great Benefits and a great culture

Cons

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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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