Horrible place for an engineer - Software Engineer Alarm.com Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

If you are a person that likes happy hour there seem to be a lot of them. Most people work 9-5, so hours aren’t really bad Lots of team events, product demos, hackathons, etc Cold brew on tap! Very smart people, very friendly (in your own groups) Free security system

Cons

Pay is horrible for this market Need to be friends with the right people to get ahead HR is an absolute joke, make sure you understand everything you sign prior to joining, they will hold it against you, I’m not sure if anyone in HR is actually ever in the office though, so questions have to be emailed VERY political, make friends early or watch your peers get ahead faster than you More time spent with meetings a week than actual work being done Location is tough with traffic, unless you live close expect to spend a solid part of your day commuting No commuter benefits

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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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