Great place to coast and not much else - Anonymous employee Alarm.com Employee Review

3.0
Oct 21, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As others have said, *generally* the worklife balance is good. People also tend to be very friendly and if you value socialization with your coworkers there are a lot of opportunities to get that here outside of work.

Cons

Your career progression is going to be almost 100% determined by how long you've been here. As stated by others, compensation is already low compared to other opportunities in the area. If you've got the misfortune of being on a more demanding team/project, you'll enjoy the misfortune of an Amazon like work life balance while bringing home half as much. You won't be compensated any better. It won't contribute to you being promoted faster. My advice in these cases is to ignore the additional asks, push back, it gets done when it gets done.

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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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