Garmin reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,852 total reviews)
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76% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Garmin has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,852 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Garmin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 17, 2025

Incredibly Dissatisfied

Recommend
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Pros

Payed on time. Good colleagues.

Cons

Poor leadership, underpaid, no career growth, unappreciated, horrible customers I'm HIGHLY disappointed with how Garmin treats it's product support employees. Certain employees get preferential treatment of having the luxury of never being on the phone while others are forced to take call after call all day long. There should be an even distribution of call and chat time among the teams but that is not the case at all. The pay and raises are artocious. They try to hide this behind good benefits but you can't eat benefits or pay your rent with them. The customers are outstandingly unintelligent and will have you in tears at how tech illiterate, entitled, and rude they are. They are forcing employees to return to the office full time where there was a well functioning hybrid office previously. So much for work life balance that they claimed to care so much about. We are not engineers, we do not need to be in the office at all to do our jobs. There is no benefit for this at all for product support. There is no room for career growth at all. The old structure of having the segments you support dictacte your product support tier and pay is gone so they have PS1 people supporting three segments which used to mean you were a PS3 with the pay increases that come with it. They try to squeeze as much work out of you without proper compensation and it's horrible. This is just another dead end call center. Don't bother.

2.0
Nov 16, 2025

I used to like working here.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I have some really great coworkers and the work is usually interesting.

Cons

Senior leadership creates more problems than they solve.

2.0
Nov 28, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good 401k contribution match No business casual dress code Gym at the hq

Cons

The only people who stay at Garmin are the ones who can handle high amounts of stress, always. The mental health well-being program/emails are a joke. You will not see an extra dime even if your product sells really well. There is zero motivation to do an great job unless you want to climb up the ladder to a management job. In quarterly meetings, management will do their best to dodge questions about salary increases in the same breath as them telling you that "x segment grew 25% beating all previous records." If you show that you will bend over backwards for the company, they will take that and make it the new expectation for you without adjusting pay. 90%+ white men. I've been in meetings where there were two non-white people and the managers asked if we did a good job being diverse.

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