Great company to work for as long as you're passive and don't mind a slow career path. - Team Leader Garmin Employee Review

3.0
17 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits are amazing, lots of great people, the prestige that comes with working here so much so that every time you interview elsewhere in the KC Metro you get asked "Why would you ever want to leave Garmin?" - Well, watch a movie on the downfalls of a Utopian society and you'll begin to get the picture.

Cons

Pay can be below what you are expecting but this is likely because emphasis is placed on benefits - not a bad trade for most but I would have gladly let go of some of the benefits to have more money. The career path is very long for associates and almost invisible if you're in low-level management. If you have a good idea, get ready for it to be brushed aside only for it to resurface months later by a member of upper management claiming it as their own. Yikes! I detected unsafe levels of hypocrisy in upper management. I'd be lying if I said I didn't begin to go down that path myself. I'm working on that though!

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Pros

Great work life balance Good people

Cons

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3.0
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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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