Good experience out of college but IT department needs serious re-work - Analyst/Developer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
20 Jan 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Lots of learning opportunities for college grads with vast exposure if you ask for it -Good work environment and lots to do

Cons

-Disparity in pay for associates at the same level is huge (~30,000 annually) -Lots of unexplained rewards along with good performers being passed up for rewards mysteriously -Senior IT management, decisions and policies are questionable and very autocratic; little power to mid level management -As a result of the above points, a lot of great resources have resigned -The Exec Assistant wields more power than IT managers and throws her weight around resulting in frequent confrontations (moron!)

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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