Garmin reviews

People are not considered the most valuable asset here. No real career paths into leadership were to be had in most parts of this company. Along with that, Garmin was rife with politics and, frankly, this will be it's undoing if not changed. The reality is that there is no real leadership and it's costing them a hell of a lot of money (no vision, no real engagement by CEO). The company didn't seem to have the ability to see the world through any 'lens' other than that of engineering so most decisions around marketing and selling their products are made by engineers. This was (is) a really big problem for them - at least while I was there. The 'culture' was ultra-ultra conservative and it's costing them market share. There were no performance incentives anywhere in the company and drove a 'show up and get paid' mentality in many parts of the organization.

Very poor engineering practices. Virtually no documentation for their systems and tools, which are approaching 15-20 years old and desperately need to be rebuilt from the ground up. The company does nothing to train you on the products you will be working on, leaving you guessing on how things should function. Poor standards for testing software causing bugs to easily and frequently get released to the customer. Coding standards are not well kept and encourage writing bad code. Middle management is lazy and ignores any requests/concerns raised by employees so they don't look bad to their own managers.