Overall a good place to work - Tech Lead Engineer Garmin Employee Review

4.0
Mar 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits, Great culture and friendly atmosphere, good work/life balance, great gym/rec facilities, fun projects, good employee discount program. Good local schools and relatively affordable cost of living.

Cons

Low pay, small yearly raises and slow opportunities for growth ( frustrating for highly driven people but reduces incentives for cut-throat behavior). Stable company.

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5.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

Cons

Questionable C-Suite directives/policies. A lot of bureaucracy, and it's difficult to move new ideas forward.

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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)

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