Fun, First Job - Quality Engineer Alarm.com Employee Review

4.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Alarm.com is a SUPER fun company to work for. Lots of events during the work day, quirky and neat office (hidden ping pong room for instance) - Great atmosphere, and genuinely great collaboration between co workers and teams

Cons

- The company likes to act like its Google or other big tech companies (root beer on tap!) but it is really quite traditional. Very hesitant to change, process improvements are met with tons of resistance. "This way has been working for us so far" - Comp and benefits are not very competitive, at least for my role. No equity, just base salary with a small bonus that was never the full amount. Only 2 weeks parental leave for non-birth parents? - Trying to advance upwards was very frustrating. No clear path, no feedback. You'd either not be promoted or get a surprise email saying you've been promoted out of the blue.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office space good environment

Cons

Expensive area for finding housing

3.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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