Alarm.com reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(476 total reviews)

Steve Trundle

71% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Alarm.com has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 476 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Alarm.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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476 reviews
2.0
Aug 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I can't say enough about every non-senior employee at the company. Everyone is intelligent and I truly enjoy working with them. The company has a great foothold on the security space.

Cons

No vision - we've sat idly by and watched Google and others gain entry into the consumer space. Instead of bringing in visionary management, we hire the CEO's friends to ride the coattails of the success built by our junior employees. This would be fine if we ended up with the best, hungriest candidates, but they have yet to show any progress. We have the same issues as two years ago. When you try to engage management to fix systemic issues, they have no interest. Our lack of engineering resources is a huge issue and is truly slowing innovation and efficiency. It has become a running joke that any good idea won't get worked on for 1-2 years. This kills the perk of working at a "small, nimble" company. We might as well be a massive org if you have to sit through 5 meetings to convince people that your project should get worked on. You can see this hurting morale as they are told they are "product managers" yet they are unable to control the timeline or functionality of their product.

1.0
Jan 3, 2024

don't board a sinking ship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

depending on the team, people are generally nice

Cons

-leadership lacks vision and conviction -limited growth potential -forced return to office -below market pay

3.0
Oct 21, 2022

Great place to coast and not much else

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As others have said, *generally* the worklife balance is good. People also tend to be very friendly and if you value socialization with your coworkers there are a lot of opportunities to get that here outside of work.

Cons

Your career progression is going to be almost 100% determined by how long you've been here. As stated by others, compensation is already low compared to other opportunities in the area. If you've got the misfortune of being on a more demanding team/project, you'll enjoy the misfortune of an Amazon like work life balance while bringing home half as much. You won't be compensated any better. It won't contribute to you being promoted faster. My advice in these cases is to ignore the additional asks, push back, it gets done when it gets done.

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