Exciting at first, but growing pains in the leadership as the company expanded without proper leadership training. - Senior Design Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good technical experience for new grads, especially for electrical engineers. Good health plan benefits and life/ work balance. Internships for engineering students available.

Cons

No training for leadership development. No budget for engineers' tradeshow travel or continuing education. Age discrimination in promotions-- youth culture.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Great, and I mean great benefits.

Cons

Poor local culture, everybody is in their own clicks and don't deviate from them. Not a huge amount of office friendliness. Not many team building exercises, and qa gets left out of alot. If you're not a developer, you will have a yard time socially. Coffee is the worst I've had at a company ever. Return to office was not handled right, and the wfh policies were written very vague by a local manager, but what they actually wanted was very specific and was not communicated at all(avg of 1 per month over the course of a year). This lead to a problem where I was denied a wfh request to grieve a dead pet because I used wfh 2 weeks earlier to register a new car ( that I got solely for work commute)

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