Garmin Reviews

Pros

Young colleagues, everyone is active and the people are really fun to work with. The work is sometimes challenging, there is generally new stuff coming along all the time.
Benefits are good, gym and race reimbursement.

Advice to Management

More variety in work is good! Avoid letting employees settle into a constant pattern.

Pros

- outdoor lifestyle
- above-average compensation
- excellent benefits and RRSP support
- Active lifestyle
- Interesting products

Advice to Management

- more systematic reviews for skill and professional development / advancement

Pros

Progressive environment with the opportunity to work on relevant and very engaging projects. Lots of opportunity to be a part of these projects even as a new grad.

Advice to Management

Offer more responsibility to experienced employees and allow them to progress toward where they want to be more quickly.

Pros

Challenging and interesting work, for the first 1-2 years. Interns and graduates are relied on to help deliver key projects. Colleagues are friendly and willing to help with questions. There are lots of sports opportunities - often more than one at each lunch time, and the office culture is to take a full hour's break at noon.

Advice to Management

Trust your employees more. And let them stretch their wings a little.

Pros

Get to work on interesting and challenging projects

Pros

Work-life balance is good, and you can generally expect 40-hour weeks unless under special circumstances. Benefits package is comprehensive, which includes stock purchase plan discounts and retirement savings plan contribution matching, as well as impressive dental/paramedical/medical coverage. Recently, training has become more prevalent, though the training may or may not directly affect your career path depending on your job function. Depending on your area of interest, the work can be engaging, and seeing your work make it to market can be rewarding.

Advice to Management

Management requires more frequent and targeted training; progressive management styles should be preferred over draconian techniques. Management should also take the time to both formally and informally engage their team and promote discussion and collaboration without enforcing heiarchy, and learn to value and leverage the strengths of their individual members. Creativity should be encouraged and rewarded, and management should follow individual creativity closely to see how it can best contribute to the success of the company, even if there is a possibility of the member outgrowing their position. Communication is paramount; egos should be checked at the door and transparency should be promoted. Volunteer information freely, and not only when asked; not just at the highest levels where individuals have little effect, but at all levels, including immediate supervisors. Volunteer targeted specialized training to your employees: their value isn't going to appreciate without some investment by the company. Offer choice and freedom of mobility to your team members; they are ultimately the greatest asset the company has and if neither are offered to them here they will look for choice and freedom of mobility elsewhere.

Pros

Show great value to the employees

Pros

Good balance of work/life, provides opportunities to help the community, great environment, awesome benefits.

Advice to Management

Provide a little better support for cross-department transitions

Pros

Benefits - awesome 401k, PTO that doesn't reset at the end of the year, health insurance is great and affordable, ESPP

You'll get to work with some fantastic products

Advice to Management

Coach your employees instead of taking the cowardly approach by going straight to HR.

Upper management - take a good strong look at mid-level managers. Get rid of those who refuse to coach their employees to be the best they can be.

Consider hiring more people who know the industry in which their business segment serves. Especially in marketing.

Pros

very good company to work for