GARMIN Employer Reviews

Great place to come out of school and get experience. Great benefits but low pay and raises. Work/life balance is good.

I worked there 14 years and continued to hone my mangement skills throughout my employment at Garmin.
The job was a fast paced, dynamic position with daily as well as longer term goals required.
Due to my previous background I was given more latitude as far as the hiring and mangement of my shift. My team enjoyed great success and many of my management – more... practices were adopted by other shifts and departments. – less

Pulled daily report to determine what product numbers were needing counted due to mid to low inventory status, high volume sellers, and zero on hand product. Also researched inventory errors to determine where product could have been lost.

Hired Team members to handle a Second Shift operation. Work with Team members ( Kaisan committee ) to expand and – more... relocate department in new warehouse expansion. – less

co-workers are always frustrated love to gossip and spy on others with unprofessional behavior seen everyday.

co-workers are always frustrated in the marine department and love to gossip and spy on others with unprofessional behavior seen everyday.

A day at Garmin usually began with me catching up on emails, preparing my area for the work. Each area had different rules and requirements. I learned that working in a corporate setting requires that you adhere to rules and to follow the chair on command. All of my co-workers were great which was the best part of working at Garmin. The hardest part – more... of working at Garmin was to maintain standards and to constantly improving. It was more challenging than it was hard. I liked being given the chance to give my input for improving a specific area. – less

I was extremely excited when I was offered the job to work here. I've been using Garmin GPS units for a long time - probably since 3rd grade - and use one almost every day for hiking or geocaching. However, my excitement was dashed on the first or second day. I thought I was going to be working with like-minded individuals. Instead, I found that most – more... of my Cartography co-workers had never even used a Garmin let alone live an outdoor lifestyle. It's obvious that my fellow Cartography Technicians would much rather drink and party every night and carry on their college habits. But, enough about them.

The job is rather pointless, monotonous, and repetitive. As another reviewer stated, any errors we find in the data after the first two weeks of Quality Assurance are usually said to be too small to fix. We basically spend two weeks looking for major errors - many of which we aren't allowed to correct and must be passed on to Engineering or the data vendor - and then four weeks noting all other errors and ensuring routing works the way it should. Repeat this four times a year for each product and the job gets old real quick!

Management in Cartography is horrible. Mainly just people who have been here the longest. They don't have management training so don't expect much. There are three cartography groups: Automotive, Marine, and Recreation. Each group is led by a group manager and is broken into teams. Each team has a team leader, a senior cartographer, and a couple of cartography technicians. The group manager almost always has ZERO cartography experience and is brought in from the Engineering side. The team leaders are promoted just because they have been here longest but have no hope of reaching Group manager status. The senior cartographers are promoted based on tenure as well but, as long as the team leaders have no promotion potential, neither do the senior cartographers or the cartography technicians.

The starting pay for a Cartography Technician is $14.50 regardless of what type of experience you have - a Masters degree, several internships, etc. At the same time, engineering INTERNS are paid well over $20/hr. Combine the lack of pay, lack of respect (we're JUST cartography), and lack of promotion potential and you get the high turnover rate that's present in Cartography. Within the first six months I was here at Garmin, four Cartography Technicians quit and moved on. Since then, five or six more have quit and there's always talk about who's going to be the next one to escape.

The best part of the job is having a .75-mile walking path to enjoy during breaks and the fact that Garmin pays for team and individual sports (they'll pay your entrance fee to marathons and a couple triathlons each year). The 32% discount on almost every product also isn't bad and they even add an additional discount to certain products at special times of the year (Dad's and Grad's, Christmas, etc.).

I love Garmin's products and I'm sure I'll continue to buy them when my time here is over but I DON'T recommend working in Cartography. – less

I love working for Garmin, but I believe I am not making as much as I would somewhere else.

Take customers calls in regards to techinical issues with there GPS units

Small company office improves the chance to be exposed to multiple factors of accounting

Garmin is a great place to work and has excellent benefits. Unfortunately it has a very horizontal management structure, which does not leave much room for advancement. Relaxed culture and laid back dress code make for a relatively friendly environment.

Garmin is great place to work with great benefits. Management is very easy to get along with and it's great to work with good people

Laid back and fun atmosphere to work in.
Hands on experience on new cutting edge devices.

A typical day of work involves editing and testing the cartographic design of the automotive products.

I learned allot about editing and brainstorming different ways for the product to work efficiently for each map update release.

The management were helpful at times but mostly stayed to themselves.

My co-workers were mostly all in their 20's so – more... it was a great environment for my first position out of college.

The hardest part of the job was that after the first or second week of clean up on the cartographic data it didn't really matter if we found any more errors because at that time they thought it was too small to rebuild the product. I had a hard time feeling like I was actually doing something productive and important. Also, they only pay $14.50 an hour and only give 5-10 cent raises each year. On top of that there was no room for promotion; therefore, there wasn't much motivation in the group.

The most enjoyable part was working with people my age and the environment that Garmin provides. They have a walking track outside so that we could stretch our legs on breaks. They also have their own cafeteria which was wonderful. – less

I left Garmin because of relocation for a spouse. It's a wonderful work environment.

In the time I've spent at Garmin I've become very diversified in many areas. Previously I had experience with supporting a financial and a medical institution. At Garmin I support everything, including manufacturing, warehouse, legal, finance, IT, human resources, operations, and a variety of engineering applications and environments.

I would troubleshoot peoples problems with Garmin products aswell as just other advice for which products would be best for the customer needs. I learned how to work in a high pressure and professinal enviroment. Mangement in Garmin were fair and nice people that never took advantge of me.

The hardest part for me atleast at working in Garmin was the – more... volume of customers with simular troubles and quierys. The thing that I enjoyed most about Garmin was just how inviting and including the staff at Garmin was. – less

travail polyvalent, contacts très divers et variés, clientèle , formation technique et divers, management participatif