I applied for this position online on November 2016. On January 2017, I received a sort of rude response from the recruiter, saying the following:
"Thank you for your application to ARM and the time you have taken to provide us with more detail about your background. I do have to say I am disappointed- this posting is a high level individual contributor with at least 7+ years of corporate, not including academic experience. I cannot tell you how much time it takes to review resumes in a role- how applying to roles that are not even a close match to your skills and experience- keeps us from moving the right folks forward in the right roles (this could be you one day). I do truly hope that you will take to heart- that if you focus your search and applications on the roles that you are qualified- you will have greater success and a lot of respect from your recruiting community that is here to support you."
I checked the position and there is no mention of 7+ years work experience requirement. Furthermore, the skillset required for this position can be found in my resume through a simple text match. Hence the recruiter's claim that it is not even a close match is completely incorrect -- any qualified recruiter can figure this out. And even if there is no match, it does not warrant a response of how I wasted their time. In my 14 years of professional career, I have never received such an impolite unprofessional response whether I cleared the initial screening or not.
Not only this leaves a bad name for ARM's recruitment process, it will keep me away from applying to future ARM positions. Looks like a there is a dire need of proper training of ARM's recruiters.
On a different note, I was waiting for the decision of an onsite interview I had recently with ARM when I received this email, which gave me a bad vibe about ARM's working atmosphere. Saying no to that position became very easy based on this recruiter's email.
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Arm response
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I am sorry for the negative experience you had during your recruitment at ARM. Regardless of one’s qualifications for a role, this is not the kind of communication we want to deliver. I have spoken to my recruiting team to correct this. We sincerely wish the very best for you in your career.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Aug 2016
Interview
Had a brief discussion over the telephone with HR about availability and salary expectations. This was followed by a one-hour telephone interview consisting mainly of technical questions. Finally, there was a half-day technical interview on site with several members of the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a question about inserting a key into a balanced binary trees and implementing the solution in a language of my choice (with a mixture of pseudocode). There were also questions specific to the role itself.
Thank you for your review. I am happy that you had a positive candidate experience. Regardless of your next move, we sincerely wish the very best for you in your career.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arm (Bengaluru) in Nov 2016
Interview
The hiring process was smooth. There were 2 interviewers. Questions were mostly related to my projects and resume. I interviewed for the standard cells team of the physical design group so the questions were mostly on basics of CMOS, Digital design etc
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basics of Digital VLSI
What happens if you interchange PMOS and NMOS
Ring oscillators