Great company, terrible upper management - Software Engineer II Garmin Employee Review

1.0
Feb 26, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are many pros working for Garmin like: - 401k contributions are the best I've seen. If I contribute 10% of my income, they add another 12.5% - Employee Stock has 15% discount and can contribute up to 10% of your income - Company culture is great, everyone, as in everyone, were previous engineers - Hybrid style with the option to work remotely on Monday and Friday, most of us did - Aside from the 2-3 snakes with friendly faces, everyone I have met were genuinely cool people, got along really well with them, and have not had any issues brought up to me - Performance based which matters on yearly evaluations - Sports and activities are highly encouraged in the office - There's lots of clubs, to name a few: baking club, fitness club, volleyball club, board games club - About 3-6 team events annually including BBQ, happy hours, etc - Really exciting work as well, I was never doing a very repeated boring tasks

Cons

- Slightest display of unprofessionalism will get you terminated immediately with no warning and no severance - Everything put into writing in company chats, including private, are taken seriously and at face value including jokes and sarcasm - Pay is average, whatever Google say your income be on that city will be your income - Annual raise is only at the end of the year at about 0-3.2% yearly and additional 10% each promotion which does not happen often

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Pros

Great work life balance Good people

Cons

Lower salary compared to market

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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