They will hire outside before they promote within - Product Support Specialist Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Jul 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They hire good people to work with, benefits are cool

Cons

Bad pay, even if you have a degree and qualify for jobs they won’t hire you. People who know less get promoted faster. Managers told me GARMIN doesn’t pay much and I need to look elsewhere for a job. Place is great to work for if you’re an engineer.

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Pros

Great work life balance Good people

Cons

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3.0
Apr 3, 2026
Recommend
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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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