Alarm.com Reviews

Okay, again, this comes from the view of my last few months at the firm: Advancement- If you want to advance beyond your current role (or beyond that), you should have joined 3+ years ago. They are going to hire middle and top management from outside the company (probably old friends of the executives) and that's just how things are going to be. Period. It's not that those outside hires are going to necessarily be bad, some are, some aren't, but those roles are not going to you. You will work until you realize the gig they are playing, then you will leave, write a Glassdoor review, and then get replaced by the next guy/gal and the cycle will continue. Compensation- I left for a job with fewer hours and more than twice the pay. This is in no way an exaggeration. Now, to be fair, my experience with those stats is not at all the norm. But given my time and impact to the firm, it highlights just how intense of an effect year after year of small incremental raises can have on your salary. I was working so hard and for so long, I simply didn't realize how much the skills I built would go for in the market until I searched. Pease don't be the next person here or anywhere else to stay too long. Sentiment- the two above things create one big issue, discontent. As a poorly formed analogy, working for ADC is like Dorthy going into Oz: First you just get your bearings figuring out where you are (like any company), then you meet some great people who all want to work together and reach a common goal, but then you realize this place is not what you thought it was and you want to get out. This manifests itself in lots of young employees who are hard working and supper happy with the culture and lots of older employees (2+ years, so not actually old) disgruntled but holding on hope that "soon things will be better here."

* Not much flexibility as far as work hours go (felt looked down on for leaving work early due to childcare responsibilities) * Didn't feel a sense of work life balance - emails/chats at all hours of the night, even on things that were not urgent and could have waited till the next day. * No team collaboration - everything was all driven from the top down, and there was no room for improvement from other people on the team. * Poor communication from management * Lack of confidentiality on teams * Not allowed to work from home pretty much ever, and if you had to, you would feel guilty. * Pay was not at all competitive compared to the market (one of the reasons I left) * All decisions that were made were based on favoritism, not based on the work others were doing. * Old school processes in place that needed updated, but no one wanted to do anything different because "that was the way it was always done."