Bad culture in Taiwan branch - Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

2.0
10 Nov 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Stable working environment and salary in Taiwan. - Provide two-years-free dorm for new employees.

Cons

- The company create an image that this is a company where you can have work-life-balance. But the truth is the manager will force you to work overtime. They don't judge your accomplishment by your working result but is by "how hard" you show in working. Also, the atmosphere is serious and little laughing in company. - Too many politics. - Taiwan branch is totally a Taiwanese company. Very small chance that you can cooperate with engineers oversea. Find somewhere else if you are expecting to experience multinational company culture.

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5.0
5 July 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 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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