WORST experience of my life - Senior Human Factors Engineer Garmin Employee Review

1.0
Mar 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some co-workers are brilliant engineers.

Cons

I was forced out of the company by inept management right after I turned 60. I was a top performer for 4 years, then all of a sudden my performance didn't meet expectations. The bottom line is, there is absolutely no recourse if a case is being brought against you. Performance is easy to lie about, and those lies are easy to document, because HR doesn't know what I do. So basically it's my manager's lies against my truth. The final action taken against me were things that I had done right, but it was worded to look like I failed. Absolutely nothing to do but resign before they fired me. This was the worst experience of my life. If you want a career with this company, don't expect much money, don't expect good management, and don't get old. I am not the first that this has happened to.

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Pros

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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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