Workload varies a lot from team to team - Advanced Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Mar 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Most people are friendly. 2. International team work.

Cons

1. Pay is low 2. Depends on team. May need to work overtime very often but there is little compensation and reward. 3. Factory-style workplace. Boss in Taiwan is mainly reponsibile for production, not R&D. He tends to focus on cost reduction. Your benefits may be sacrificed. 4. Need to go to office by 8am. Earlier than the average in this industry. 5. Higher-ups hope you to learn and do everything.

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3.0
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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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