Considering to work for Alarm.com? Read this! - Quality Engineer Alarm.com Employee Review

1.0
26 Jan 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

ADC's culture is fine, benefits are good, people are colaborative, a lot of fun. The product is interesting, releases are weekly, so the builds are not that huge.

Cons

First, salary is not competitive! Not at all!!!! People accept the offer expecting room to grow. They got excited during the interview process, but what will happen later? A lot of fresh graduates like you are being hired while a lot of very competent professionals are being left behind. Yes, you'll become one of them. Did you do a excellent job? This is your prize: - Thank you, you are a winner!! This is your parking permite to use one of the reserved spots in our free parking building, for a month. - Yes... this the way ADC values their employees. Newbies, pay attention to this: 4.5 stars rating you see in Glassdoor was motivated by fun activities. Fun activities and parking spots don't pay mortgage or rental, they don't pay your bills, they don't move you forward in your career path! It's frustrating!! I'll be the next one leaving this company. I'd love to be here for years, but my time is over. Now I understand that ADC is like a long term internship, not a place to be for more than 2 years if your goal is the career you studied for. If you accept the job, keep studying, because most of what you learn is specific to ADC, and you'll not apply in other companies. Good luck!!!!

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
19 June 2026
Recommend
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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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