Diamond in the rough - Associate Alarm.com Employee Review

5.0
Sep 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Alarm.com is a special place to work. The entire organization works hard to select the right people, and the result is a positive culture with fantastic coworkers who end up being great friends. Since the company is so small, even younger employees like myself are given a large amount of responsibility and ownership right out of the gates. This is at the same time challenging and refreshing. I recently left Alarm.com to pursue an MBA at a top business school. My managers were incredibly supportive in helping me apply to business school and pursue other career goals. Since diving into the to Bay Area tech ecosystem over the last few months, I can confidently say that the culture, people, and work being done at Alarm.com stacks up favorably with even the best companies on the west coast.

Cons

Alarm.com is an innovative startup with a flat organizational structure. Although there are many benefits to this approach, the lack of clear hierarchy can sometimes make it difficult to align organizational objectives and to successfully push projects forward.

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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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