You're just a number - Embedded SW Engineer 2 Garmin Employee Review

2.0
27 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits are pretty good and there is a decent work/life balance.

Cons

The company just sees you as a number and does not care about its employees at all. They recently became slightly more transparent about their resource groups identifying them now as business resource groups instead of employee resource groups. I spent several years within the Diversity and Inclusion sector of the company and quickly came to realize that the only thing they cared about was the way they looked externally and they are not actually interested in diversity, equity, or inclusion. Be very wary of what the literature says as they are happy to support companies that are knowingly anti-lgbtq+ or that have a long history of being anti-lgbtq+(Chik-Fil-A, Salvation Army). The company would rather placate bigots than actually be concerned about the diversity of the workforce. The pay from the company is well below the industry standard and while the benefits help, the compensation is not equivalent. The PTO is not sufficient, especially for those who have dealt with Covid the last few years requiring many to work when they are sick. The company is happy to let the best worker's leave without any effort to keep them while at the same time they are unable to find new people to hire in causing extra load on those who are left behind. It seems very telling that there has not been an associate survey since August 2018.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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