Great Company, Strong Products, Exceptional Benefits, Average Comp - Program Manager Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Apr 21, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits (we paid less than $400/mo for a family of 4 for great healthcare) Culture - company focuses on hiring A talent. People are smart, driven, and tend to have high curiosity.

Cons

- Base pay not competitive vs. similar companies in the area. - Raises 2-3%, no bonuses and promotion potential on larger teams is challenging. - Growing pains continue as processes that worked for 1,000, 3,000, and 5,000 employees struggle to function "efficiently" with 10,000+. Bureaucracy can seep in to keep processes on rails, but make coordinating thousands of team members in one direction difficult.

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Cons

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Pros

- Near 0 threat of layoffs - Fitness oriented culture - Main office has many amenities and is very modern - Good benefits (Health, dental, vision, education)

Cons

- Highly discriminatory, constant meetings about missing hiring inclusion metrics required by law - Little to no opportunity for promotion due to average tenure being 15+ years. This means you will stay in one roll for at least 5 - 7 years for one promotion. - Required highschool gpa to be hired, even if you have a doctorate degree - All salaries are a minimum of 30% lower than the national average due to their "Benefits" - Extremely top heavy with a team of 5 people having 7 levels of management above them - Main motivation for team structure changes being caused by massive amount of retirements instead of growth

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