Arm reviews

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

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
Mar 30, 2022

Okay-ish

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is good

Cons

Too many changes and restructures; over once a year. They only pretend to care about you; its very transparent. The office location is not great and hard to get too. Don't value or reward hardworking/talented employees; doing extra will not get you ahead.

1.0
Oct 20, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of vacation days Sabbatical Above average but not an extremely good pay. But overall compensation is a good deal.

Cons

If you see the previous negative reviews you can observe a pattern that dates back as far as 2014 talking about how terrible this group is. Although there is a cloud hanging over the company since the acquisitions, this group was and still is a bad group to work for. Extremely poor processes and tools. Very badly written software tools. Nobody knows how it works internally. There wasn't even a manual. Developers were not accessible at all. Shocking for a company like ARM. There was no technical guidance. It was just pep talks like jumping on tasks as quickly as you can. Because nobody knows (including very senior engineers) how the tools work and what will be the outcome. Cancel all your plans and hope that time left will be enough. Open cube conversations were borderline NSFW. No professionalism, personal comments were made. Highly opinionated echo chamber, better fall in line. If you want to stand up and complain, you will be spared in the current review cycle and properly done-in the next. There were a lot of manual tasks with no value to your career. You just sit around typing shell commands, parsing logs and manually verifying outcomes. Scripting tasks come by very rarely. That is the most intellectually stimulating task you will ever get. Other than that you get manual and repetitive tasks that leave you mentally fatigued and take you nowhere. Overall it looked like a made up position to cover up inefficiencies. Neither was it a Software role position nor an Application Engineer role. Longer you stay, the more you make yourself unemployable. Why hire a Masters candidate for this?

2.0
Mar 20, 2019

Downward Spiral

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Innovative products and great colleagues and decent benefits but still not on par with standard SV benefits.

Cons

Poor leadership, too slow and scared of change. No decision making, no transparency and Executive Committee hoards decisions and refuses to delegate to qualified staff. Leads by fear, if you disagree, you are pushed out. Fix your culture problem, the UK vs. the US is going to destroy your company.

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Arm Response
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We are sorry to hear you feel this way and it clearly prompted you to move on. I would really like the opportunity to pick up with you on this separately and request you reach out to me on Aylin.Halil@Arm.com Our employee surveys indicate we have a really empowered culture, that feels they have the ability to impact change and deliver some great outputs, for our eco-system and partners. I'm terribly sorry to hear your experience wasn't in line with the general consensus and I do hope you have the opportunity to pick up with me and discuss.
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