Arm reviews

4.5

90% would recommend to a friend

(2,640 total reviews)
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Rene Haas

93% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Arm has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,640 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Arm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
4.0
Feb 17, 2016

Great exposure to the industry

Anonymous employee
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Pros

ARM is central to the silicon industry and is involved in "everything", though IP timelines can be rather lengthy. As such it is like having a crystal ball for the future. Great opportunity to have a view of the world.

Cons

Once a company comes to dominate its market space it begins to shift focus inwards - away from the customer and towards politics. Who is the competition and where is the source of hunger?

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Arm Response
10y
Thanks for leaving a review! While we have a strong presence in the market space, we continue to grow both by development of products as well as acquisitions to strengthen the ARM portfolio. The shift inwards is needed, as the processes and needs of a 2000+ person company is drastically different from that of a 4000+ person company. As such, as we will continue to see how we can improve internally so that all employees can contribute their best to the company. -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
4.0
Feb 15, 2016

Good place to work

Recommend
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Pros

I'm working in the PDG group for less than a year. 1)Nice place to work. Colleagues are very friendly. 2)Scope to learn and work on latest technologies. 3)No overburden/extreme pressure which is seen in other companies.

Cons

Compensation is not par with market leaders. Although stock bonus compensates a little towards it, it would help a lot for the management to retain their best engineers if they increase the compensation.

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Arm Response
10y
Thanks for leaving a review! I'm glad to read that you're enjoying your working experience at ARM, and hope that you're able to expand your engineering skillset with the PDG team. As noted in previous review responses regarding compensation, the Rewards team completed a company wide analysis, and employees should now be placed in the 75% band, meaning your base salary will be higher than 75% of your peers in the relative market (location, function). Once you factor in bonuses and the RSUs you were granted when you join the company, as well as the PTO/time off, the total compensation package is quite competitive. For employees who perform exceptionally on the rating scale, this is reflected with a 1.25x bonus increase as well as a larger annual pay increase, which helps to retain our best engineers! -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
4.0
Jan 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Listens and acts on employees feedback - Healthy work/life balance - Employees are encouraged to take an initiative - Some of the best technical guys around are here!

Cons

- Recent origanization growth rate is very rapid. There is a number of scalability issues, mostly in IT area - Lund site is (and feels like) a satellite one. No serious career graph or career variety there - Pay is on an average level, not extraordinary, plus no overtime payment at all.

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Arm Response
10y
Thanks for leaving a review! As you mentioned, ARM has grown rapidly in the last few years which is both a good and a bad thing. Good in the sense that we're doing great as a business to need to scale up very fast. Bad in the sense that we did not have the proper infrastructures and policies in place to reflect a larger organization. It's been a bit of a growing pain, and we thank employees for the feedback that we've needed to improve things internally. For compensation, salary is only one component of the total rewards package, which also includes RSUs, ESPP and annual bonuses. If you have any additional feedback, I please do bring it to the attention of your HR Business Partner, as they are there to support your teams to make ARM a great place to work! -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
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