Good place for embedded software engineers - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Garmin

3,0
23 mar 2016
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Garmin makes a lot of interesting consumer products. Benefits are pretty good. They are a large company in a variety of markets so there are a lot of opportunities for internal transfers.

Svantaggi

Garmin lacks vision and focus. Garmin doesn't know what product to build so they build a lot of similar products which is inefficient and time consuming from an engineering perspective and confusing as hell from a customer perspective. Garmin is a hardware company and they are probably a pretty good place to work if you are a hardware engineer or you like doing embedded software on a proprietary platform. Garmin doesn't understand how to manage modern software platforms like web and mobile so if you work in those areas you will feel like the tail is wagging the dog. In other words the hardware products that Garmin sells generates all the revenue and so web and mobile teams have to do whatever the product teams want even if that means committing software suicide.

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5,0
20 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

People are great, work balance is fair and fulfilling

Svantaggi

Not the flashiest benefits like some tech companies have

3,0
3 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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.

Svantaggi

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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