Fun Place to Work - Quality Tester Garmin Employee Review

5.0
Oct 30, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Garmin has beautiful headquarters with a garden, cafeteria with numerous food options every day, a huge gym, indoor courts for basketball/pickleball, etc, and outdoor walking areas. They hold a lot of fun events for employees throughout the year. There are many clubs to get involved in, and a lot of people who are motivated and love working there to get along with. They take great care of their employees. My bosses were always open to feedback and improvements and actually listened.

Cons

The only cons are that Garmin is unfortunately going for the "corporate" look and feel. They used to have a more fun and colorful environment, but they started "renovating" everything to literally be gray. They introduced cubicles that are "modern" and gray and bland and painted the walls gray or white. We used to work in cool offices but got moved to these cramped, bland cubicles with like one window in the entire space and fluorescent lights. So the work environment itself became very depressing and corporate. Also, Garmin does pay on the lower end of the average range for positions, but their benefits are good so I guess that makes up for it. Just don't expect to be taking home a huge paycheck relative to your position.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Culture, benefits, pay, and onsite gym.

Cons

Time off is not up to industry standard.

3.0
Apr 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits and work life balance. It's a good culture and I've never worked at a place where your immediate peers are this helpful and pleasant to work with, even across teams and offices. If you want to just come in and do just what is required for your job and go home with the knowledge you have a stable job, this is the perfect place to work. I'd only recommend working here if you just want a job, but don't care about a career.

Cons

There is poor career advancement, especially if you aren't male. Leadership does not care about leading people. The RTO has made working here less appealing. The excuse that you can't collaborate unless you are in the same building makes no sense when you work with people in 6 different countries. It is about control and appearances, all due to incredibly poor senior leadership strategies. The pay is also low and so is the quality of the software you work on. Leadership likes to talk quality, but they like fast and cheap. They will not support you in actual software quality nor implement changes to improve it. The same issues happen over and over without improvement.

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