Pros
Generally speaking, lower-to-middle-management are great, thoughtful, engaged. Benefits are awesome, particularly the insurance coverage and premiums. Garmin HR talk about total compensation a lot, and they're not wrong. The benefits really do help make up for one of my cons below (the pay).
Cons
Pay: below industry standards. HR will really drive home the value of our benefits when you interview so that the lower pay feels justified. Diversity: Lots of great employee resource groups, but Garmin leadership has a very conflict-averse, controversy-averse mindset. They will not acknowledge your demographic except through the respective ERG's distribution group. Zero interest in taking a stand or making statements about anything for fear of alienating customers. Policy: black-and-white & applied unilaterally. Rarely room for nuance or exceptions, even when there's a reasonable justification. Garmin's answer to complaints about this is to write certain sections of the handbook so that exceptions (when allowed) are "at management's discretion." Roll the dice to see if you get an authoritarian boss or one who's more flexible and empathetic. Gaslighting: What is promised, guaranteed, or committed to one day will be reversed frequently, and in ways where leadership pretends as if they never used phrasing that was an explicit commitment or promise. Leadership never admits to mistakes, lapses in judgment, or errors and instead just frames these 'pivots' as changing due to business needs. Punitive treatment of former employees: Garmin's worst trait is how they treat (many? most?) former employees. People who leave the company in good standing with great performance reviews & stellar metrics and who follow Garmin's process to ensure rehireability are often flagged as NOT rehireable after they leave. I know this to be fact on two occasions and suspect (but can't confirm) this for a dozen others. (The two I know about even left for personal reasons. [Spouse relocation and family illness] When their situations changed and they tried to return to Garmin, HR would not even give them a pre-screen call. I personally requested interviews with them and was told they were not rehireable. When I asked why, HR declined to share and even advised me I was not permitted to share their rehireability status with them.)