Nice place to work right out of college. - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Nov 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Typically decent working hours with a lot of intelligent people. Recently added more opportunities to advance. Good healthcare. Friendly working environment. Team leads are promoted from engineers who typically know the products well.

Cons

Managers are frequently promoted from engineering staff, but are not always the most interested in actually being a manager. At the time upper management did not appear to care that compensation was below average for the area. This has since been adjusted.

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5.0
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Pros

They have a great culture.

Cons

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3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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