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      4.5

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (2,630 total reviews)
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      Rene Haas

      93% approve of CEO

      88% positive business outlook

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      4.4

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      4.4

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      4.4

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      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Career opportunities

      4.1

      Senior management

      Arm has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,630 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
      2.0
      Aug 6, 2020

      Great people, poor management

      Analyst
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      Pros

      Good salary and benefits mostly great people to work with nice offices flexible work approach

      Cons

      Poor communication Management don't appear to know the direction of the company with restructures occurring at least every 6 months Lack of transparency in restructures with people being let go in secret - culture of paying someone to make them go away Very poor HR department - unaware of HR related legal regulations, systemic people issues not dealt with Evidence of discrimination and unethical behaviour with employees not wanting to report this for fear they will be 'asked' to leave the company A lot of senior people who don't seem to do any work - or at least create any outputs, wildly inefficient It appears a lot of people are promoted because they've been in their role a certain amount of time or they have a poor line manager who will not challenge requests for promotion As above, line managers lacking the skills needed to manage people. This results in either people running amok, doing no work or not getting developed as the company promises

      3.0
      Nov 23, 2019

      More focus, more technical work and innovation, and less managers

      Staff software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Recognised name in the industry. Access to state-of-the-art hardware and software years before official releases. Opportunity to get in touch with a large amount of big names in the industry and build relationships.

      Cons

      Mostly no products - no focus at all on execution and delivery Lot of duplicated work between teams, almost absent communications between groups working on the same things - eventually this leads to re-organisations and layoffs Incredible amount of middle managers and self-declared tech leads who don't really lead anything, apart for their career in some safe spot. You can pass your day basically doing nothing and nobody will ever complain, unless you don't get along with the management, than they will pick on you on the next round of layoffs Went downhill since Softbank acquisition, as Softbank is either using Arm for financial/political reasons or they don't have a clue of what to do with it - basically late on every possible market expansion opportunity apart from mobile (AI, servers, autonomous driving, etc). Lots of inexperienced hires doing fundamental technical work, hence the work created on top of that will be flawed. No exit interview.

      5.0
      Jan 10, 2018

      Great place to be for those who enjoy challenging fast paced environment where change is the constant

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Amazing pace of growth which of course comes with its challenges but rather those challenges than that of decline and stagnation. Softbank brings a longer term vision and ambition which is inspiring and takes some getting used to but an amazing group to be part of. Majority of the organisation has a flexible approach to the individual preferences for work life balance and whilst the work is intense presentism is not apparent. Organisation is working hard to get the basics right and keep up with the expansion. Recent launch of the Reward Flex pot where every individual has a pot of money to invest in development, health and wellbeing or charitable giving and its a reasonable value £4,500 in UK - $8,000 in the USA and its the same whether you are a Graduate or on the ExecutiveCommittee. (plus for the cynics the central training budget has been maintained). I personally would not want to work anywhere else right now.

      Cons

      Dont come to ARM and expect not to be stretched and challenged. Be prepared for frequent change as the technology and the markets we address are changing at an incredible pace. Not everything is perfect but everyone is working hard to make it better.

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      Thank you so much for taking time to leave a review. It is great to hear what you think Arm is all about, and honestly speaking about what we are not. Arm is evolving so fast and we're not perfect either so constantly iterating, improving and testing helps us continually try to be better!
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