Company Lacks Direction - Anonymous employee Alarm.com Employee Review

2.0
Jan 6, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good Benefits - Cool Office - Good for a first job out of college

Cons

- CEO and C-Suite in general is extremely out of touch with reality. If the CEO wants to just bury his head in coding and product design then allow him to do that and place someone else who actually cares about fully managing a company in the CEO position. He very clearly just wants to run the company however he, exclusively, wants to with no regards for the market or what the employees are telling him (see push for RTO). - Constantly told there is no hierarchy/flat structure to make it seem like a "cool & fun" tech company when really all that means is an excuse for absolutely no direction for the company as a whole, the teams, or for you as an employee. It is literally just an excuse for C-suite to be lazy. Also, don't make the mistake of thinking that means any manager will listen to any employee bringing up any issues and solutions and implementing them. No, ADC is perfectly content to keep the status quo until the top decides it doesn't work for them anymore...but again, no hierarchy, right? - Because there's no direction, people are silo'd and just kind of...do whatever? They work on whatever they want pretty much and teams aren't necessarily ever in sync working towards any common goal. Bit frustrating, because while they say teamwork is a value and while people are nice, there is no true teamwork to speak of. - They'd rather throw people at a problem than invest any kind of software to improve efficiency. In fact I would say they almost actively seem to want to be inefficient. - There's no consistent performance reviews which again goes to lack of growth and direction and is especially odd given the random layoffs and PiPs. If consistent performance feedback isn't given, what exactly are you basing layoffs on, legally speaking? - People really don't have any respect for time, which I guess is part of the "cool & fun" tech culture, but is honestly just disrespectful. Team meetings consistently go HOURS over the allotted time with a single employee monopolizing majority of the time and the manager just letting it happen. People will come by just to "chat" for hours, again with no regard for the work you may be doing. - if you are at all seasoned in your career, stay away.

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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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