Great benefits, below-median pay, stereotypically corporate culture. - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great facility to work in, really neat industry to be in. Lots of on-site amenities. Benefits are very good; health, dental and eye insurance for me and my spouse was very comprehensive and incredibly cheap. 45% employee discount that they encourage you to share with your friends and family.

Cons

Speaking to the IT department: pay was low for my level of experience, there are no bonuses, raises have been incredibly mediocre despite bragging all the time about continuous year-over-year record profits. They are highly against work-from-home. They very much emphasize the benefits to try to mask the fact that you are being paid pretty well below market rate. From the beginning I was promised career growth, but was hit with constant hurdles and excuses when trying to apply internally. I felt like I was looked down upon by trying to advance my career. A typical schedule would be 8-5 with a 1-hour lunch break, but unless you live in Olathe you really can't go home for lunch and be back in time. There is an onsite cafe but it is very expensive and the quality is very hit-or-miss. In IT, there is a very large and problematic sense of "not my job" when trying to collaborate between departments. They excuse this behavior behind "it's ITIL/change management" but in reality it's people simply not being helpful in any way. This leads to a lot of frustration and working on things that, ironically, shouldn't be part of your job. Being publicly traded, it's very profit/shareholder-motivated and and very corporate. You might feel appreciated as a person on a team level, but beyond that I very much felt like a KPI datapoint.

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5.0
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Pros

flexibility, benefits, fulfilling work, people

Cons

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3.0
Apr 3, 2026
Recommend
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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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