Mostly great company with some opportunities for improvement. - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Aug 31, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Get the opportunity to work with the latest and greatest technology. Company offers excellent benefits. Casual dress code and great coworkers.

Cons

Salary and bonuses are sometimes low compared to other employers, though the company expects a lot of overtime out of its employees in certain departments. Promotion track is by appointment and has a hint of good old boys club--there are no interviews done for in-house promotions. Product range is so large that there's not much time to focus on any one project which spreads resources thin and requires a ton of overtime just to attempt to keep up. Company repays its shareholders and executives with excess cash but withholds bonuses from its employees.

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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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