Good people - Software Engineer II Garmin Employee Review

4.0
8 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people work here, and the environment is very supportive. The products and work are engaging. Management is mostly former engineers, so they can relate to developers well and want to build cool products. Fantastic benefits. People stick around for a long time, so there's good continuity and lots of knowledge available to new hires.

Cons

Management is mostly former engineers, so they get out over their skis sometimes and fall short on the more business/people management side of things. Pay is lower than industry average. People stick around for a long time, so career advancement opportunities (i.e. breaking into management) can require a lot of patience.

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5.0
5 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice headquarters, good people, fun atmosphere.

Cons

Questionable C-Suite directives/policies. A lot of bureaucracy, and it's difficult to move new ideas forward.

3.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great, and I mean great benefits.

Cons

Poor local culture, everybody is in their own clicks and don't deviate from them. Not a huge amount of office friendliness. Not many team building exercises, and qa gets left out of alot. If you're not a developer, you will have a yard time socially. Coffee is the worst I've had at a company ever. Return to office was not handled right, and the wfh policies were written very vague by a local manager, but what they actually wanted was very specific and was not communicated at all(avg of 1 per month over the course of a year). This lead to a problem where I was denied a wfh request to grieve a dead pet because I used wfh 2 weeks earlier to register a new car ( that I got solely for work commute)

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