beware - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

2.0
10 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Hybrid work (3 days in office). Smart co-workers. DO-178 with modern tools (git, Jenkins, CI/CD).

Cons

In-house review and requirements tools were subpar. Lots of focus on tracking hours spent. Lots of legacy SW and HW to maintain. No other way to say this, but most management is white and male.

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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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