Product Support Specialist II - Product Support Specialist II Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Feb 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great 401k package, Good paid time off system, Great discount on Garmin products, affordable health care packages, Bonuses for years spent with the company, 40 hr work week M-F so weekends off. Generally get a Christmas bonus. Generally put on a nice winter gala event with free alcoholic beverages.

Cons

No path to move up the corporate ladder when working in product support. When I left they offered a tiered system to help with the lack of vertical movement. I had been there long enough I was slotted as a Product Support Specialist II. Was hard to get noticed by anyone in other departments because product support's building was in a satellite office roughly 20 mins away from main campus. Hard to get raises because you are told things are not performance based yet they were. Takes long time to fix issues over phone with P.N.D.'s (Personal Navigational Devices) specifically when most customers are not tech savvy to begin with. Was good working here the first couple of years but then with the advent of all free items on android and apple stores customers became very unwilling to be worked with and expected something for nothing. Constantly told you are the front line of defense and we are charged with up holding the Garmin name yet you are paid the least and have the hardest job. Constantly told by management this position is not a foot in the door position so you can work over at headquarters and have a good job but customer service is the career path chosen. Also they tout that vertical integration is waht they do yet they hire people from the outside to be in managment. Being a manager of customer service is not hard and should be awarded to someone who has been with the company for a long time. (managers tend to be lazy and they form a good ol' boy club and if you get on the bad side you generally aren't gonna go anywhere.)

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Cons

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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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