Would not recommend - Software Engineer Alarm.com Employee Review

The codebase is monolithic, and it desperately needs refactoring. It keeps getting worse as new developers are added who don't have much experience and don't know how to write good code, and more experienced engineers are pushed into management. In addition to the code itself being really terrible to work with, all the tools and technologies used are incredibly outdated. If you're interested in being strong in cutting edge tech, this is not the right place for you. The promotion standards are incredibly inconsistent. There is a document with expectations listed for each level of software engineering roles, but you can't expect to get a promotion even if you meet all the guidelines. A lot of the managers have been given the opportunity to manage after only having been a software engineer for 3-5 years, which ends up meaning some of the managers are really terrible at being managers. Even though these managers may be incapable of effectively managing, they still get promoted and have more people added under them as direct reports. There is a lack of effort from the company to support diversity and inclusion. There are some groups started by employees for this purpose, but I would have liked to see the company make an effort to foster a healthy environment, starting with hiring someone to focus on diversity and inclusion as their job. There is a culture within software engineering of being generally patronizing to people who disagree or are trying to learn something new. I've heard others talk about this, and I've experienced it myself on a different team, so it seems to span multiple teams. This certainly isn't true for everyone or even the majority of engineers, but there are a decent number of "brogrammers" at the company that perpetuate a culture of a lack of self-awareness and casual misogyny/racism. Most people are really nice and genuine, but the few people like this definitely ruined the culture for me.