Strong People, Weak Support — Hybrid Removal Highlights Deeper Issues - Senior Software Engineer Garmin Employee Review

3.0
4 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Talented, motivated coworkers who care about doing quality work. - Opportunities to contribute to meaningful, technically interesting projects. - Generally fair performance review process with clear expectations. - Historically a solid benefits package and stable environment.

Cons

- Recent changes to work flexibility, including the removal of hybrid options, were made with limited visible consideration for employee feedback. - There is a growing disconnect between internal experience and external messaging about company culture and employee support. - Workloads have increased over time, particularly for experienced individual contributors. - Accumulating technical debt makes it harder to maintain quality and sustainability. - Career progression can feel slow, even for consistently strong performers, especially as responsibilities continue to expand. - Several long-standing perks and forms of flexibility have been reduced gradually, impacting morale.

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5.0
30 May 2026
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Pros

Great work/life balance. Top pay if you're a top performer.

Cons

Can get boring with little opportunity to learn new things.

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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