Pretty good work, but repetitive - Software Engineer-II Garmin Employee Review

4.0
5 June 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Young colleagues, everyone is active and the people are really fun to work with. The work is sometimes challenging, there is generally new stuff coming along all the time. Benefits are good, gym and race reimbursement.

Cons

Endless release cycle, some days it feels like it won't end, and it doesn't. Expectation of overtime work. Minimal raises per year (~inflation), no bonus. Can easily get stuck in the same pattern. Too many meetings some days to get anything done at all. Easy to burn out.

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Pros

Great work life balance Good people

Cons

Lower salary compared to market

3.0
3 Apr 2026
Recommend
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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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