Extremely good benefits, comparatively low pay and management structure - Engineering Program Manager Garmin Employee Review

3.0
Aug 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits are out of this world. You won't find any better anywhere else except with the government. Coworkers are amazing, really good folks at Garmin

Cons

Management structure is a nightmare. All decisions through one bottleneck. No processes in place to share responsibilities. Pay is rather low compared to other organizations for the amount of responsibility. I know they were making adjustments when I left, but it was still about 10-20% too low. There's a stock bonus program that they don't tell anyone about that helps offset it, but you aren't eligible until you've been there 5+ years.

Explore other reviews about Garmin

5.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have a great culture.

Cons

I don't have cons to list.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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)

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All