Overall A Solid Company To Work For - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Nov 17, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work-life balance Excellent engineers who are a joy to collaborate with Interesting products to work on In general, Garmin seems to value their employees, promotes from within, and actually implements employees' advice. Stable company Lively office with great amenities and activities 12.5% 401(k) matching Excellent health/dental/vision coverage, with low premiums

Cons

Hybrid work from home model (3 days in office, 2 at home). Compensation is not bad, but could be considered lower than average for the area / years of experience. However, I think the benefits help close that gap. Can be lots of strange bureaucracy at times.

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5.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

Cons

Questionable C-Suite directives/policies. A lot of bureaucracy, and it's difficult to move new ideas forward.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great, and I mean great benefits.

Cons

Poor local culture, everybody is in their own clicks and don't deviate from them. Not a huge amount of office friendliness. Not many team building exercises, and qa gets left out of alot. If you're not a developer, you will have a yard time socially. Coffee is the worst I've had at a company ever. Return to office was not handled right, and the wfh policies were written very vague by a local manager, but what they actually wanted was very specific and was not communicated at all(avg of 1 per month over the course of a year). This lead to a problem where I was denied a wfh request to grieve a dead pet because I used wfh 2 weeks earlier to register a new car ( that I got solely for work commute)

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