Alarm.com reviews

- Promotions are a popularity contest. If you aren't "seen" by people multiple layers above you, there's no chance. - Project managers have no vision about what they actually want. Requirements will change frequently without proper communication, and developers are blamed for this. - Project managers see developers as an obstacle and are eager to use LLMs to replace them even at the cost of application stability. - Project managers are vindictive and will get a developer in trouble for disagreeing with them on implementation details. - Project managers take credit for work of developers (see: promotions being a popularity contest) -- but only if the work looks good. If a project goes poorly for any reason, PMs will blame and throw developers under the bus. - Project managers are adamant about sacrificing code maintainability for churning out features at all costs. - Middle management often micromanages two or more layers below. They will join meetings to dictate minute implementation details for seemingly no reason other than to exert authority and to be "seen." - Many senior developers treat anyone with a lower title than them like idiots who cannot be trusted to make any decisions, but at the same time won't provide clear guidance for the "correct" way to do things.

- CEO and C-Suite in general is extremely out of touch with reality. If the CEO wants to just bury his head in coding and product design then allow him to do that and place someone else who actually cares about fully managing a company in the CEO position. He very clearly just wants to run the company however he, exclusively, wants to with no regards for the market or what the employees are telling him (see push for RTO). - Constantly told there is no hierarchy/flat structure to make it seem like a "cool & fun" tech company when really all that means is an excuse for absolutely no direction for the company as a whole, the teams, or for you as an employee. It is literally just an excuse for C-suite to be lazy. Also, don't make the mistake of thinking that means any manager will listen to any employee bringing up any issues and solutions and implementing them. No, ADC is perfectly content to keep the status quo until the top decides it doesn't work for them anymore...but again, no hierarchy, right? - Because there's no direction, people are silo'd and just kind of...do whatever? They work on whatever they want pretty much and teams aren't necessarily ever in sync working towards any common goal. Bit frustrating, because while they say teamwork is a value and while people are nice, there is no true teamwork to speak of. - They'd rather throw people at a problem than invest any kind of software to improve efficiency. In fact I would say they almost actively seem to want to be inefficient. - There's no consistent performance reviews which again goes to lack of growth and direction and is especially odd given the random layoffs and PiPs. If consistent performance feedback isn't given, what exactly are you basing layoffs on, legally speaking? - People really don't have any respect for time, which I guess is part of the "cool & fun" tech culture, but is honestly just disrespectful. Team meetings consistently go HOURS over the allotted time with a single employee monopolizing majority of the time and the manager just letting it happen. People will come by just to "chat" for hours, again with no regard for the work you may be doing. - if you are at all seasoned in your career, stay away.