Bad Engineering Company - Software Engineer 2B Garmin Employee Review

1.0
4 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company offers great insurance and 401k programs and several other fringe benefits on top of that. Highest levels of management are good at directing the company from a big picture level.

Cons

Very poor engineering practices. Virtually no documentation for their systems and tools, which are approaching 15-20 years old and desperately need to be rebuilt from the ground up. The company does nothing to train you on the products you will be working on, leaving you guessing on how things should function. Poor standards for testing software causing bugs to easily and frequently get released to the customer. Coding standards are not well kept and encourage writing bad code. Middle management is lazy and ignores any requests/concerns raised by employees so they don't look bad to their own managers.

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Pros

Great work/life balance. Top pay if you're a top performer.

Cons

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3.0
3 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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