Do not recommend - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

1.0
22 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

When I was there they offered 100% paid health insurance for salaried employees. Very casual dress code. You could wear jeans and shorts.

Cons

Most if not all departments offer no flexibility in work schedule. Overall it is strictly 8-5:00. My manager didn't allow for any time to be made up for doctor appointments, child's school activities, etc. For example, if you wanted to leave an hour or two early one day you had to use your Paid Time Off (PTO). If you got stuck in a traffic jam such as on a day it snowed, you were counted as tardy and the time you missed was deducted from your PTO. I have never worked at a place where you weren't given the option to just make up some of the time. This is the most inflexible place I've worked at. There is no option to occasionally work from home. The safety of their employees is not a major concern, especially workplace issues against women. They didn't offer a disability benefit to employees. I was told that if they offered it employees would use it. Really? There were people who had cancer and had to be off work and had zero income coming in. One employee needed surgery but couldn't afford to take the time off without pay. Allowing this to happen to its employees is ridiculous for a company in which the owners were multi-millionaires. Salaries are extremely low. Not a favorable place for women to work and move up in the company. Very male oriented.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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