Garmin reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,854 total reviews)
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Clifton Pemble

76% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Garmin has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,854 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
4.0
Dec 8, 2014

Good, Needs to pay a little better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great atmosphere, great people, great benefits

Cons

pay, upper management, secrecy, lack of transparency

5.0
Dec 7, 2014

IOS developer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

a company with very open mind

Cons

no china please, Taiwan still has chance

5.0
Nov 28, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Garmin's culture is relaxed but motivating. I've seen senior management dress up for Halloween, but we're doing serious work too. Lots of intelligent engineers, so it's a great place to continually hone your skills. They are committed to their employees and hire slowly to avoid the need to lay off later when projects finish. Garmin is improving its training offerings, both technical and inter-personal, and in the last couple of years has gotten much better in that area. Because of the various divisions and the vertical integration style of the company, there are usually lots of internal opportunities if you are not happy with your current position. Many of my coworkers have transferred in or out of my group from/to other groups. Overall, Garmin does a pretty good job of maintaining a culture that feels almost like a startup (outside of Aviation, which necessarily is more process driven).

Cons

Slow hiring means that we are always pretty busy as we could almost always use some more people. Promotions are still guided mainly by time, not skill level. Management can be slow on the public recognition of good efforts, but they are working on that.

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