Removing hybrid work universally is a mistake - Anonymous employee Garmin Employee Review

2.0
24 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of the individuals I work with are fantastic. The benefits are strong, but the annual compensation review overestimates the value they add to you by double counting the PTO as additional compensation.

Cons

They removed the option for hybrid work, and will not be flexible by location or position. Most locations will have to complete this in the next few months, but HQ will get all the way until 2027. The HR isn't great on several fronts: - handling requests for accessibility/accommodations - they don't really dialogue, more just springs a meeting on you to tell you what they've decided you can have - half baked policies shoot off without actually considering what they want to change - poor training for managers - 'good engineers' are tolerated regardless of other bad behavior In general the company wants to continue acting like HQ is the only location, when there are 2 additional sites in Olathe alone, let alone the number of US and international offices.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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