A good company to start you career, a bad company to work for if you have more than 2 years experience - Software Engineer II Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Jul 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- great collective and colleagues who really do their best to help you - interesting technology stack

Cons

- a lot of security on your personal laptop (at the point where you cannot even do your job properly because of it) - you are not admin on your laptop - you need to ask for access for every little thing that you want to install (you will waste a lot of time doing this) - there is a cultural gap between the american team and the romanian team (myself being part of the romainian team), the communication is really lackluster - you will need to do on-call on some weekends (you need to be near your laptop and offer support if some problems appear in the system) - management is really bad (a lot of requirement changes, fuzzy deadlines, almost as though nobody knows what he needs to do) - daily meetings with a team from US

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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