Uppers
free housing with great people
Advice to Potential Interns
take it and love it. do more then is expected of you and you will be rewarded.
Sample Interview Questions
given a scale and a bag of infinite marbles with one marbles weighing more then the others, what is the fastest way to find the marbles ?
Advice to Management
more training and better explan what is needed to get a fulltime position
Downers
The call volume vs the pay. Eng interns $22+ hr, support interns 13.50...
Advice to Potential Interns
The ability to be relaxed in a stressful situation, with people that have no clue how to operate a computer
Sample Interview Questions
What experience with Garmin products do you have?
Advice to Management
Would address the pay issue, 13.50 is no where near enough to deal with the customers, and the amount of work we did vs engineers that sat and looks at code all day
Uppers
Being able to actually design a product and then being able to physically see the end result.
Downers
I spent a majority of my day on the computer which became monotonous and slow.
Advice to Potential Interns
Expect to work, but realize that you may be stuck on a computer all day.
Sample Interview Questions
Advice to Management
For interns, training in any area would have been nice. It would have provided opportunities to learn more.
Downers
Staring at a monitor for 8 hours a day
Advice to Potential Interns
I received dual screen monitors and my own desk in a two person office (which I had to myself for most of the summer). The people are fairly friendly. My work, albeit necessary, was slightly boring. I was well compensated and accumulated PTO. Overall, I would say my internship at Garmin was pretty good.
Sample Interview Questions
Uppers
Seeing first hand all aspects of the how the supply chain interact together
Downers
Ran out of tasks for me to complete. I did not feel like I was being challenged or pushed.
Advice to Potential Interns
Only treat the engineers special, not all other interns. If you are an engineer you would probably love it here.
Sample Interview Questions
Uppers
Being surrounded with highly intelligent people
Downers
The subject matter of my work. I was given busy work and tasks that nobody wanted to complete.
Advice to Potential Interns
Request to not be placed on PND
Sample Interview Questions
Advice to Management
More training. Its nearly impossible to master a codebase this large without some kind of training process. More strictly enforce coding standards so different pieces of code can be read and used by the same person.