A Great Starter Company - Device Engineer II Alarm.com Employee Review

3.0
26 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get exceptional exposure to a wide range of engineering disciplines in a single role, from firmware development to hardware debugging to test infrastructure. That breadth is rare and accelerates your growth fast. Management is supportive and gives you real ownership over projects. The team culture encourages innovation, and when you build something good, other teams notice and adopt it. An excellent place to build a strong engineering foundation early in your career.

Cons

Career advancement can feel slow, and compensation doesn't always keep pace with the market for engineers with a few years of experience. Some codebases have grown organically over a decade-plus, making onboarding and development more challenging than necessary. The Boston office can feel disconnected from headquarters. Growth opportunities narrow at the mid-level, and the technical career ladder could be more clearly defined for engineers who want to stay as individual contributors long-term.

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5.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office space good environment

Cons

Expensive area for finding housing

3.0
19 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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