Big company feel, low company pay - Anonymous employee Alarm.com Employee Review

3.0
Mar 7, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Good coworkers * Projects are interesting

Cons

Surprisingly cheap for such a big company. Supposedly the benefits should make up for low pay, but: * 401k match is both tiered for vesting (normal) and capped at a max (according to Vanguard, this is in the bottom 8% of company benefits in 2019), and also fees are passed through to the employee. * The employee recognition platform just makes me laugh... you can recognize others with the equivalent of $5.00 every quarter, we were offered $0.50 as a reward for a healthy habits challenge... * Some recent charitable giving initiatives involve no match, but Alarm.com only paying for shipping while employees actually pay for the items... Anyway, nothing huge, but it feels a bit insulting that these are supposed to be adding to the package.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 19, 2026
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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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