Love it. - Software Engineer I Garmin Employee Review

5.0
Mar 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There's not much to hate about working as an engineer at Garmin. The benefits are great, the hours are great, the offices are great, we're expanding like crazy on campus right now so there's a lot of exciting new things coming. I like the clear separation between work and fun. We don't have beer carts, we don't have goofy conference room names, etc. We work when we're here, and we work hard; however, we work 40 hours a week and get our stuff done. I have my fun when I'm not working, which is the majority of my life - unlike some other companies. Plus the cafeteria rocks. Tons of options that are actually pretty reasonably priced.

Cons

Parking is horrendous right now, but we've got a new garage that'll fix that in the works. I wish I could see outside from my office, but I can't win everything.

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5.0
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Pros

Great company to work for. Great Benefits and a great culture

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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