Great People and Benefits, Poor Pay, PTO, and Promotions - Program/Engineer Manager Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Dec 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Culture is quite healthy, everyone goes home at 5 except for those on high-demanding programs (Few people on these) Friendly Co-Workers Stable with no worries of layoffs Lots of benefits for healthcare, great gym, cafeteria (bit expensive), social clubs. Get discounts almost everywhere in town for just working at Garmin. Great discounts on Garmin gear. Hybrid - 2 days work from home

Cons

Little to no promotions. If engineer 2, you have to work at Garmin 5-6 years before becoming senior. No middle levels at all between an engineer 2 and senior. Pay raises and salaries do not account for inflation. Pay raises are only 3 - 3.5% if you are lucky. No bonuses Definitely, a boys club with upper management, but that's every company. For the most part they are nice to everyone. PTO is poor and accrues only. You do not start with any PTO. Do not shut down for Christmas, but you do get Christmas day and eve off. You do not get New Year's Eve off. This forces you to use a lot of PTO.

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Cons

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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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