Device Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Alarm.com with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 30% positive. To compare, the company-average is 51.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Device Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Alarm.com overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Alarm.com as a Device Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 36%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Alarm.com (Vienna, VA) in Sep 2013
Interview
I applied through my university's job portal. Alarm.com saw my resume and gave me a call in early September 2013. The caller was friendly; we talked about my resume, my experiences, and they asked me some behavioral questions.
Then, Alarm offered me an on-site interview a week later. They paid for my flight and the hotel. However, my plane was delayed about 3 hours and I ended up in an airport an hour away in Baltimore. Ended up taking a taxi to DC with two others and then to Vienna alone. Due to an address mix-up, didn't get to my hotel until 2 am. Luckily I woke up for my 9 am interview.
I went to the waiting room first where I waited with 3 other candidates. I ended up going through the interview process with 2 of the candidates (we interviewed separately at the same time).
The on-site interview consisted of a series of one-person interviews. In order:
-A lead device engineer talked to me about my resume and asked me a brainteaser
-Another lead device engineer gave me a PCB and asked me to identify all the components on it. In addition, he asked me to identify common acronyms used in microcontroller and embedded programming (SPI, I2C, UART, etc.)
-A sheet with some basic coding questions
-Lunch with some employees and the two candidates. We had good conversation.
-An engineer interviewed me and asked me a C coding question with bit-shifting
-The CTO interviewed me and we talked about why I wanted to join Alarm.com, etc.
I had a great experience with the interview process. Everyone was very friendly and enthustiastic about their work. The engineers are all young; most of them have been out of college for a year. The culture is like that of a start-up, but Alarm.com has been around for 10 years and has carved out an established niche for the market that it's in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The bit-shifting problem had me thinking for a while, but I got it with some prodding.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Alarm.com in Mar 2020
Interview
Contacted by recruiter, initially set up short phone call (~15 minutes). Did a hackerrank challenge, after that, scheduled a phone interview with the manager (~1 hour). Was told I would hear back from them very soon, and I never heard from them again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic algorithms, questions about hardware and software from a high level. Nothing too specific at the stage I got to.
I applied online. I interviewed at Alarm.com (Boston, MA) in Jan 2020
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me for a phone interview 1.5 months after I submitted my application.
The phone screen consisted of logistical and behavioral questions. The Interviewer started to rush the interview towards the end. The interviewer informed me that I would hear back within a week. The phone screen ended in 15 minutes.
I got a rejection email 5 days after the phone screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Willing to relocate? authorized to work in US?
What do you know about the company?
Why did you choose this position?
What is something you learned recently from job/school?
Tell me about one of your most recent projects.
Any questions for the interviewer?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Alarm.com (Tysons Corner, VA) in Oct 2019
Interview
ADC (alarm.com) was always very quick to reply and the entire process from application to offer took just under a month. Everyone who interviewed me was kind and courteous -- it was a great experience!
The 'interview' was a 3 stage process:
1) Basic phone screen
2) Online code challenge
3) All day on-site
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic screen was a mix of behavioral and high level questions about technical knowledge. This was followed by an online code challenge which was some leetcode easy / medium level questions. Finally, the onsite ran the gamut from hardware to behavioral to software design questions depending on the interviewer.