I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arm in May 2017
Interview
I didn't make it to the interview stage, but wish to leave a review about ARM's poor recruitment process as experienced by myself in May 2017. I contacted the recruiter by LinkedIn as I saw her post about this vacancy and was interested to hear more.
Her communication skills on LinkedIn are very poor, I found her replies to my messages slow and full of inappropriate use of punctuation marks (using several exclamation or question marks when replying to a candidate really doesn't fill you with confidence).
She agreed to a chat over the phone to tell me more about the role, followed by me sending my application through their website. The website itself isn't user friendly, I work in technology and found it appalling that a technology company like ARM can't even get this right. It wasn't clear where to click to move on to the next stage and where to submit the application. So much, that I had to start my application again after unsuccessfully uploading CV and cover letter. Very frustrating.
I contacted the recruiter the next day to confirm I had applied, and received no acknowledgment. I didn't panic at this stage, but contacted her again as a follow-up after a week of no news or reply. Again, my message was ignored. I followed up a third and last time, after which I finally received a reply stating she thought she had replied already but the message hadn't sent (!?) and she half-confirmed I hadn't been successful in getting an interview. I'm stating "half-confirmed", because her reply was ambiguous, it stated that ARM already shortlisted another candidate for this role and were in the process of interviewing.... Why then waste my time like this? Let's say that I didn't bother replying to this vague reply, didn't ask for feedback again (I had asked and she didn't provide it) and won't ever apply for any ARM vacancy in the future. A very, very poor experience, considering my application and CV matched almost word for word the skills and experience they required for this role and I felt an interview would have been appropriate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I only had a phone conversation with the recruiter during which she asked why I was applying for this role
I applied online. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Dec 2016
Interview
I applied online and was invited for an interview onsite at their Cambridge HQ.
Once at the HQ we were introduced to the company through a small presentation with the leader of the Demo Team and the current interns.
Then we had a question paper with programming questions and general computer science questions. Such as spotting the problem with some code and suggesting better ways to write a loop.
After that there was a programming test where we were given an Android application and tasked to make it perform better.
After lunch there we had a task to design a device that would improve people's lives. Like an IOT device, we had to show how it would work, what it would look like, software it would use etc.
Then finally there was an interview which was casual and relaxed and went over the question paper we did earlier to get more better answers and to see if you had the knowledge. It was nice because if you made a mistake on the paper and had thought about it throughout the day, you had a chance to prove that you knew the answer to them. You could also try and justify a different answer to what they expected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you had £1000 to spend on tech today, what would you spend it on?
Thank you for your review and for interviewing at ARM. I am glad to hear you had such a good candidate experience, and am especially happy to hear that you enjoyed the interview. ARM are always striving to improve our recruitment process, and it is nice to be reassured that we are providing a positive candidate experience. -Yvette s.
I applied online. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, East of England, England)
Interview
Started with a video interview, with prerecorded questions where you'd have three minutes to record your answers. No do-overs, so slightly stressful. Also contains one or two coding questions, which are straightforward.
Then got invited to a face-to-face interview at Cambridge, where people were very friendly and nice. Questions in that were very typical, based on the resume and some questions meant to be solved on the whiteboard. As usual, more about explaining how you'd approach the problem, what your process is than the results itself.
Thank you for your review and for interviewing at ARM. I am glad to hear that you had a positive candidate experience. ARM does recognise both the benefits and shortcomings of digital and video interviewing, and that it is unfortunately not favoured by or suited to all candidates. Thank you for your constructive feedback, we look forward to working with you to make positive changes to our recruitment process in the future. - Yvette S.
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