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      Garmin

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      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (1,865 total reviews)
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      Clifton Pemble

      75% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

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      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      Garmin has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,865 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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      2K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 11, 2020

      Resistant to change, sign-on trap, ineffective leadership but solid compensation

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - The compensation is pretty good for the area. - The 401k match starts at 10%, but vests 20% per year until 5 years. So if you leave in your second year you'll keep 20% of the match they gave. - In my experience, I rarely worked more than 40 hours a week.

      Cons

      - Management is resistant to change and values seniority over technical value (i.e you must "prove yourself" before you're allowed to have any ideas). - WFH policy exists but is pretty inflexible. You'll be in the office 90% of the time. - Tons of micromanagement - "Excellent performance" is defined as doing exactly what you're told as quickly as you can. - Agile In Name Only. Zero developer autonomy. - Low to no ownership over the end user experience. No cross-functionality. I've never even met the users of the project I work on. - Company focus is on churning out as many new devices as possible rather than investing in a few good ones. - You'll spend 80-90% of your time doing maintenance rather than development. - Huge amount of tech debt from an ancient inherited codebase - constant production issues. - Possibly racist recruitment? The office is disproportionately Indian. - It seems like the Software Engineers are treated as a cost center rather than a driver of value.

      4.0
      Mar 10, 2020

      Great place to work

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Interesting and challenging projects - Nice people and fun work environment

      Cons

      - Hard to change technical aspects / approaches on large projects - Code quality is sometimes not taken seriously enough

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