Alarm.com reviews

Some information is cryptic such as when/if we get raises for our annual review. HR says they are there for you to help you grow, but when I applied for a different position within the company, it felt like they were reporting everything I asked to the hiring manager of the other position. I didn't really feel like I could honestly ask what was on my mind.

-A lot of engineers end up being in silos (so they're the only engineer) for their projects. This ends up being rough for everyone since you end up pretty isolated in terms of work, and there's only person who has any expertise with their project. So if you need to find information, you might end up needing to spend a lot of time asking questions across teams to find the one person that actually has an answer to the questions you have. And if they've left you're gonna have to hope there's thorough documentation somewhere. A lot of projects thus have a low bus factor. -Despite being silo'd on my own project, I found myself juggling other projects and responsibilities at times, which make it hard to focus on one task because of all the context switching. -Tech debt. There's stuff that's been really tightly coupled together that shouldn't be and doesn't follow SOLID principles which makes it really difficult to work with sometimes, most people just end up working around it because there's always a push to put engineers on the never ending flow of new projects. -Attrition and turnover. While some people do stick around, I saw a lot of people leave before/around the 2 year mark, which lead to only a few people with 4+ years of experience sticking around, and ends up contributing to the lower bus factor. -Promotions seem more tenure based than performance based. Overall I wasn't bothered by this, but I know others did care. -I would say that Alarm's good about job security, but there were layoffs during the pandemic.