Horrible management and HR - Watchstander Garmin Employee Review

1.0
Feb 13, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty decent pay and decent benefits

Cons

Lack of support from management. They're never on site, take forever to respond to you. Management gossips and fraternize outside of work. If they're friends with you and consider you part of their little clique, they have your back. If not, they could care less about you. They ignore issues with employees who could seriously cause clients injury or death, but happily escalate minor complaints to HR if they don't like the employee at the center of the complaint. HR is even worse. They're useless. Also take forever to respond. Extremely hostile and unprofessional. If you question or disagree with anything you are immediately put under a microscope by management / HR and they will actively look for a reason to write you up or fire you all while being completely blind to real issues with employees who are going to eventually cause them to have a lawsuit thrown at them because management ignores complaints and refuses to escalate them to HR.

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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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