Garmin reviews

Garmin doesn't care about the people working Product Support and even worse if you work outside of Kansas. There rarely any growth opportunities and when a promotion job does pop up they always go to people in KS, no mater the qualification of person in Salem. This has created a bad work culture in Salem that gets more ugly every day. The biggest topic among co-workers is how badly they want to leave. On top of this, the yearly wage increase doesn't support the top performers that go the extra mile for Garmin.The max possible wage increase is 5% and rarely anyone gets that. What's bad is you can kill yourself working really hard all year being top 5 performer and get 4% raise or just slack off and do avg to below avg work and get 3% raise. Why would anyone try hard for extra 8 cents per hour vs their lazy co-worker? Maybe for a possible promotion right? but that not happening if you work in Salem. Garmin loves taking advantage of top performers but won't compensate them and will pass on them for that promotion if they don't live in KS. If your not motivated/career minded then Product Support might be ok for you. If you live in KS then might be ok for career growth but sill not great.

Garmin lacks vision and focus. Garmin doesn't know what product to build so they build a lot of similar products which is inefficient and time consuming from an engineering perspective and confusing as hell from a customer perspective. Garmin is a hardware company and they are probably a pretty good place to work if you are a hardware engineer or you like doing embedded software on a proprietary platform. Garmin doesn't understand how to manage modern software platforms like web and mobile so if you work in those areas you will feel like the tail is wagging the dog. In other words the hardware products that Garmin sells generates all the revenue and so web and mobile teams have to do whatever the product teams want even if that means committing software suicide.