Great Products, Lack of Talent - Product Manager Intern Alarm.com Employee Review

4.0
Feb 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The products are super fun to work on, you get to do super important work that is pushed to customers right away and it's common consumer technology that is intuitive and fun to innovate on. In terms of user and product, this is most Product Managers' dreams.

Cons

Bit of an ancient company. I believe their smart security technology rivals any out there, but the business model of not selling direct to consumers is a result of decades being in the business and is a bit outdated. Because of this, they definitely are not a household name and often the business model outweighs innovation. Though it is a huge, public tech company with very smart people, the talent and dedication does not rival that of FAANG or other household name tech companies. Pay is alright for tech, but would not poach any talented engineers from bigger companies.

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5.0
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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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