Garmin is falling behind - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

2.0
Mar 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice coworkers. Medical benefits are okay.

Cons

Garmin is quickly falling behind other similar sized companies in a lot of ways, and they're going to continue having a lot of trouble retaining employees and finding replacements unless they make changes. But I unfortunately don't see that happening. It's been pretty hard watching this ship slowly sink. Just on my former team alone, we lost several brilliant people that, understandably, moved on to better opportunities. This is causing product quality to quickly deteriorate due to an ever increasing workload being dumped on to those left. They offer a 2-day WFH/3-day office hybrid split. But, there's signifiant limitations on that. They've left it up to various teams and departments to decide on who is approved to be hybrid, so in practice few will actually be given that benefit. And leadership positions are straight up not allowed to WFH at all, which will no doubt cause a lot of tension. So, in order to remain competitive with other companies to attract talent, Garmin would need to provide benefits to offset needlessly commuting into the office. Which, they don't. Compensation is also very low compared to what others are offering.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 3, 2026
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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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