Senior Software Engineer - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

5.0
Aug 18, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Culture. Good people. Management cares about their employees; you are more than just a number. They care about keeping you interested in the work you do and you can move around the company. Really good health care. Best 401k of any company ( 7.5% match up to 10% plus 5% pension; so you get 12.5% match for 10%). Excellent work/life balance. Managers and promotions are almost all in-house for engineering.

Cons

Pay is slightly below average.

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5.0
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

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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