Good Starter Job. No Real Long Term Potential, even for High Achievers - Cartography Technician Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Mar 31, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic benefits, work campus, cafeteria, daily fitness classes/gym (I got hundreds of dollars worth of yoga/month for free! - main thing I miss). Most of the people are great - a few pills.

Cons

In Cartography, you get to learn how to do a few things well, but there is not much growth potential. I was a high achiever and had the opportunity to work on a special project, but had that project not come up, I would have been doing the same thing day in and day out. This was a great first job out of college to get my bearings and learn about the working world, but by no means a place to stay. Leadership/Supervisory positions are pretty entrenched with a long waiting line.

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5.0
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

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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