Antiquated benefits shelled inside a new office - UI Designer Alarm.com Employee Review

1.0
Aug 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Your coworkers are amazing. You can easily make friends and hangout with your peers outside of work.

Cons

Senior level management needs work, they have no idea what they are doing and often it comes off like they don't care. Alarm.com doesn't offer a competitive salary, or opportunities to grow within the company. I was told many times, "this is the way we have always done it," and never really felt like people were listening to what I had to say or offer. There were times when we got extremely busy, and my manager would tell me, "just give a B level of effort on some of those projects and get them done. They don't need to be your best work." I have never, and would never give anything less than my best effort, and to suggest to me to do something like this is a huge insult and just not right. Absolutely no recognition for a job well done. only 5 days paternity leave....in 2018. Insurance benefits are expensive.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

Expensive area for finding housing

3.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company culture - the people are great. Decent benefits for a single person Interesting products and projects Work from home flexibility (2 days)

Cons

Compensation could be more competitive for the area. Unfortunately, they are taking advantage of the employer market right now, and offering salaries 6k less than what starting salaries the year prior was offered. Your manager definitely has the biggest impact on your time here, with little regulation or management above them. It will entirely shape your experience, for better or for worse. Decreased work from home flexibility - when I accepted the offer, my recruiter told me it was typical for employees to work from home around the November and December holidays, with no need to take all your vacation days to do so. At the last minute, this norm was mysteriously taken away, and depending on your manager, employees were told to either use their vacation days or be in the office the day before and after Xmas. Cozy. The AI strategy here is starting to finally look like an actual strategy, but before that it was in every sense of the world a mania and definitely shifted the culture in a bad way. Kudos to the people who attempted to take leadership and actually formulate our strategy. HR here is kind of useless, the team is extremely bloated. Onboarding was not a fun experience.

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