Arm reviews

4.5

90% would recommend to a friend

(2,639 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 2,639 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
Oct 22, 2017
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Pros

The IT department is ambitiously and aggressively trying (emphasise trying) to drag itself from the 90’s into the bleeding edge of technology- so you’ll always be challenged with something interesting that’ll help you grow professionally.

Cons

I’ve never seen an IT department with such an ingrained and unflinching culture of bullying. There’s one simple reason for this, and it’s resource hoarding. If you’ve ever seen a pack of stray dogs fighting over the the single bone that’s been thrown to them you’ll know what I’ve seen at ARM. The churn of employees and contractors within the IT department is astounding, with the fastest way out the door is to escalate a bullying complaint to a director within IT or one of the HR business partners. Every single person I’ve seen make a bullying complaint was removed from the company within weeks if not days.

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Arm Response
8y
Thanks for leaving us a review. Your feedback is valuable, even if it’s not easy to read. Our ability to learn and quickly take action from our experiences will drive us to be more successful in the long-term so we do appreciate your feedback. First of all, I’m very sorry, surprised and disappointed to hear about how the experience felt for you. Bullying is never acceptable and is not compatible with our Core Beliefs around “We, not I”. Please write to me with any further details you have and I will look into this personally, to ensure that nobody in my team is experiencing or perpetrating this type of behaviour. As you say, this is a hugely exciting time for Arm and for our IT organisation, where we are undertaking a demanding programme of work to update our infrastructure and services so that they can cope with the demands of a larger, ambitious workforce in pursuit of 1 trillion connected devices. There are lots of opportunities and challenges here, at both an individual and collective level. One of these is resources: we’ve introduced some new processes to improve how we allocate resources to our priorities, so that we’re having the greatest impact according to our goals. As a result we’re hiring a significant number of permanent staff, who we are committed to developing for the long-term. Turnover of our permanent staff in IT is less than 5%. Thank you again for raising these important issues, [Andy Smith, CIO, Arm]
5.0
Oct 20, 2017

Well managed company with very sharp people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very well managed company (financially, products, marketing) with full transparency. Feels like a family. Huge penetration in smartphone and a great potential to build up on that for IoT, especially after the Softbank acquisition. Great strategy for hardware and software. Good compensation. # of employees grew by 20% just in the last one year

Cons

Opportunities to optimize/accelerate decision making

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Arm Response
8y
Thanks for leaving a review!
5.0
Oct 20, 2017

People Team

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing career opportunities with a company that is growing quickly; leadership actively supports career development of its employees; flexible working environment (location and hours); Able to provide open and honest feedback to leaders across the company; Company culture that supports people to be unique individuals; Arm cares about people not just as employees but as whole people--this is demonstrated through policies, company practices and benefits.

Cons

Arm is growing and evolving--for some this is very exciting and seen as an opportunity. For others change can be difficult.

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