Garmin reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,845 total reviews)
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Clifton Pemble

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Garmin has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,845 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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3.0
Aug 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

A great place to work fresh out of school. Easy and laid back for the most part. Company expectation is generally 40 hours/week. Some good people to work with. Benefits are acceptable and have some nice features. Great employee pricing on products.

Cons

Pay is very low and based on Kansas salaries. Company thinks your biggest benefit is the right to work for them. No promotion or advancement opportunities. NO opportunity to get recognition or significant pay increase. Standard 'merit' increases at review cycle are the same for everybody. Company thinks they are innovating by integrating existing technology from other products. Management promotion is based on the good ol' boy network. Focuses hiring in cheaper new grads, not experienced employees. Company has lack of trust of employees.

2.0
Jul 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits Many opportunities for Embedded work The facilities are well designed for development (offices, lab areas) Lab and test equipment excellent Job for life if you are complacent

Cons

Tendency to retain senior/middle managers who seem to collect salary but do little else. These same individuals end up with meaningless titles and head up initiatives - read talk shops with delayed execution. When they run out of things to do, new titles created. Titles get invented arbitrarily, reorgs frequent and lack logic. See above. HR is overly staffed with little to do besides organize events and salaries are not competitive. Do not expect to work on software languages and technologies prevalent in the industry Definite not invented here attitude Do not expect cutting edge software development tools

3.0
Jul 15, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefit with good work/life balance. People are also nice.

Cons

Salary is much lower than market average and their pay raise in percentage was unreasonably low last year. Many talents were gone for these reasons.

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