Underwhemling job and uncompetitive pay - Engineer Garmin Employee Review

2.0
28 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good 401k contribution match No business casual dress code Gym at the hq

Cons

The only people who stay at Garmin are the ones who can handle high amounts of stress, always. The mental health well-being program/emails are a joke. You will not see an extra dime even if your product sells really well. There is zero motivation to do an great job unless you want to climb up the ladder to a management job. In quarterly meetings, management will do their best to dodge questions about salary increases in the same breath as them telling you that "x segment grew 25% beating all previous records." If you show that you will bend over backwards for the company, they will take that and make it the new expectation for you without adjusting pay. 90%+ white men. I've been in meetings where there were two non-white people and the managers asked if we did a good job being diverse.

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Pros

Great work life balance Good people

Cons

Lower salary compared to market

3.0
3 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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