Don't Believe the Hype - Anonymous employee Alarm.com Employee Review

2.0
17 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The office space is great, full of great perks. Social elements are great, if you have time. Training staff is supportive and strives to offer lots of opportunities. If this is early in your career, it's not a bad place to cut your teeth/get a big 'name' on your resume.

Cons

Before I started writing this, I read the past few years of reviews and had to do a double take the make sure I hadn't written a review before. So, let me repeat what others have said: LOTS of favoritism/clickish behavior. Mid level leadership protects their friends. Department heads who have 70% department turnover in a year (the lionshare leaving for better jobs) continue to fail upward. For a progressive company about access, no real support for remote work/flex hours. Pay levels 10-30% below market, hence the BIG campus push. The 'freedom' to chart your own career path means that unless you get a supportive manager, you're just a cog. HR department is absolutely focused on the companies benefit, not yours. Read and use the employee handbook and know your rights.

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3.0
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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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