Alarm.com reviews

Not a good place if you want to grow. Interviews, technical interviews, challenges, taking you through the office, showing you the nice ping pong room, lounges, etc. Those things may seem nice, however, that is the end of it. Don't ever stop learning, motivate yourself, continue to better yourself outside of work while you are here. Since the workload is generally standard 40 hours, it is very nice to use flexible time you have got to strive for the better. The structure of a department where one senior leader has all the power with compensation, promotion, and manpower is ridiculously masked over with nice talk to your face. Or here you go, great job, go get yourself a free meal from Panera Bread! Or wait, we would love you to get a nice parking spot for one month!

1. Below average salary: Fortunately, I was able to get pretty good amount of RSUs (Restricted Stock Units that will vest every year or two). However even after counting those that were being vested, my total pay was below average. Offers I received from other companies were about 15-30% higher than my total package at Alarm (Base + Bonus + RSU). 2. Workload varies extremely by the teams. Senior management and management didn’t seem to know that certain team’s workload is simply much higher than the others. It was a bit disappointed upper managements were not aware of our situation fully. 3. Not much of a reward even if you do a lot of work. Same as above. If you care about your project and work hard to get it out with high quality, no one cares and your promotion will be similar as others. I would suggest you to work bare minimum and don’t take any additional projects/tasks even if you have a tons of time. Your promotion won’t be affected, which is slow anyways for everyone.