Great People, not great benefits - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Nov 21, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good 401k, good culture. People are really nice. They don’t do layoffs.

Cons

Their PTO policy is not competitive with other companies, same with their holidays. You only get 3 weeks of PTO which includes sick time. So if you get sick at all- pretty much you lose your PTO quickly. They are not flexible about remote work. Lots of companies do a week off of PTO at Christmas, it would be nice to see Garmin do this or anything to make the lives of their employees better.

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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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