Garmin reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,855 total reviews)
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Clifton Pemble

76% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Garmin has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,855 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Garmin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Job security No other pros Just a stable job with very less salary

Cons

People leaves company alot, they have more people leaving and employee retainment is the big challenge Too much pressure on engineers by functional side No WLB Highest perfromance gives you 4% raise No RSU given to SE level Lots of on-call duties Middle management sucks Lots of politics

2.0
Dec 27, 2022

You're just a number

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are pretty good and there is a decent work/life balance.

Cons

The company just sees you as a number and does not care about its employees at all. They recently became slightly more transparent about their resource groups identifying them now as business resource groups instead of employee resource groups. I spent several years within the Diversity and Inclusion sector of the company and quickly came to realize that the only thing they cared about was the way they looked externally and they are not actually interested in diversity, equity, or inclusion. Be very wary of what the literature says as they are happy to support companies that are knowingly anti-lgbtq+ or that have a long history of being anti-lgbtq+(Chik-Fil-A, Salvation Army). The company would rather placate bigots than actually be concerned about the diversity of the workforce. The pay from the company is well below the industry standard and while the benefits help, the compensation is not equivalent. The PTO is not sufficient, especially for those who have dealt with Covid the last few years requiring many to work when they are sick. The company is happy to let the best worker's leave without any effort to keep them while at the same time they are unable to find new people to hire in causing extra load on those who are left behind. It seems very telling that there has not been an associate survey since August 2018.

1.0
Feb 13, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pretty decent pay and decent benefits

Cons

Lack of support from management. They're never on site, take forever to respond to you. Management gossips and fraternize outside of work. If they're friends with you and consider you part of their little clique, they have your back. If not, they could care less about you. They ignore issues with employees who could seriously cause clients injury or death, but happily escalate minor complaints to HR if they don't like the employee at the center of the complaint. HR is even worse. They're useless. Also take forever to respond. Extremely hostile and unprofessional. If you question or disagree with anything you are immediately put under a microscope by management / HR and they will actively look for a reason to write you up or fire you all while being completely blind to real issues with employees who are going to eventually cause them to have a lawsuit thrown at them because management ignores complaints and refuses to escalate them to HR.

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