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      4.5

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (2,629 total reviews)
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      Rene Haas

      93% approve of CEO

      88% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.4

      Work/Life balance

      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 2,629 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
      3.0
      Mar 24, 2017

      It needs to improve or people will start leaving

      Senior design engineer
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      Pros

      - I really enjoy all my coworkers. Generally speaking, everyone is nice and open to talk to you. - Health insurance and facilities are nice - I think company has a bright future, technology-wise. Intel should be concerned about ARM. - Growing company. Softbank acquisition hasnt affected day to day work.

      Cons

      My following comments come from the vast majority of my collegues, its not just my opinion. - No lateral movement within the company. Near impossible. Managers and HR will say the right things but its just not true (dont believe them). Only a single colleague I know of was approved to move to another team. The funny thing is that he actually had to wait two plus years after the approval to be able to move and that only happened because he threaten to quit ARM. Even within a single team, this happens. Eg. the "fetch guy" will keep working on fetch unit, he'll rarely get to do anything else (loadstore, commit, etc). Why does this happen? Cause management only cares about results; moving laterally is just risk for them, not growth. They acknowledged this two-three years ago (at least on a couple of teams) by asking employees what they wanted to work on but nothing happened. Colleagues are still doing the same thing. - Moving vertical is just as hard, if not harder. Its hard to get promoted. Even after "exceptional" reviews many ppl dont get promoted. This is because your promotion candidacy goes to a panel made up of many leads across several different teams. If they havent heard from you, you are screwed. Its just not fair and many friends complain about the process w no changes. - Staff/principal engineers keep doing what they do best, lots of cool stuff, and they pad themselves on their backs. Meanwhile, lower grade engineers are stucked with the 'extra' stuff even though you could argue they are just as qualified to do the more interesting work. - No free food, no free coke products, and a unclean-low-grade, soap-like, starbucks-wanna-be coffee (we tried to get a better local Austin coffee but request got rejected by facility manager even after presenting survey results showing everybody in the sute preferred the local one). - The cafeteria is "subsadicied" but its still better to just go and eat somewhere else given their prices/quality.

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      Arm Response
      9y
      Thanks for leaving your honest review. There was a lot to cover, so please bear with me for the lengthy response. As you mentioned, we have a lot of great things going for us at ARM, with a positive and nice working environment and great employees. That said and as with other companies, we have areas we can improve on to make it even better. Internal mobility is encouraged, with resources on the ARM Intranet dedicated to this subject. Networking with other teams and line managers can help with the name recognition, so that when that team does have an opening, they may consider you. Grade levels are open and transparent in SAP/Successfactors, and determined based on the value each employee brings to the company. For career growth, I recommend visiting the Talent Development intranet page, as that offers a wealth of resources on how to advance your career. In addition, all ARM employees have free access to lynda.com, where you can learn a variety of skills. Regarding food, while it is not free, it is subsidized as you mentioned. There are only a few large tech companies that offer free food, while the vast majority offer subsidized cafeterias for their employees. It is important to remember that if we offered free food in Austin, we would want to offer it to all offices, including the smaller ones without a cafeteria, as we wish to provide a similar work environment for all employees, regardless of office location. We do offer free La Croix sparkling water as an alternative to Coke products, as it is a healthier option. This goes with the very generous health insurance that ARM provides its employees. An alternative, local coffee for the Austin office is still in discussion (I am personally in the email chain) and if procured, there will be an announcement in the weekly Austin newsletter. I invite you to come back next year with an update, as employees are able to leave reviews once a year! -Rick C. Employer Brand and Social Media Specialist
      4.0
      Oct 1, 2019

      Still a Great Place to Work

      Senior engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great benefits 4 week sabbatical every 4 years 4 weeks starting vacation, 5 weeks after 4 years 26 weeks of maternity leave, 8 weeks paternity leave Brilliant engineers that are genuinely helpful Strong advocate of Diversity and Inclusion Internal social network service allows us to be expressive Great stepping stone towards higher paying companies

      Cons

      BURN OUT. If you are an RTL/Verification/Performance Engineer, then you now have to balance between working on multiple projects. When I first joined, engineers talked about life outside of Arm. Now all they talk about is how busy they are with no end in sight. A team that used to do monthly team lunches completely stopped and less time is spent improving the processes when we need it more than ever. Going away lunches for engineers who have been at Arm for 15+ years are more common than team lunches. ATTRITION. Top engineers are leaving including fellows. All of them are leaving to higher paying companies and HR and upper management said they have no plans to change our compensation because “people leave managers” and “no one mentioned compensation on their exit interview.” INNOVATION DECLINE. That feeling of starting work on a new project is gone. Projects are now just adding features on existing designs. There’s no time to rewrite things that are out of date or to revisit things that could be worth improving upon.

      2.0
      Aug 11, 2019

      Too many toxic managers in Physicle Design Group (PIPD/POP, etc.)

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      I would recommend this company to a friend but make sure you avoid the PDG organisation at any cost. Majority of other organisations have the British culture and are reasonable.

      Cons

      In PDG, constant workplace bullying, verbal abuse, threatening, humiliation, and intimidation. It is common for leaders, managers and leader-favorite employees to speak dismissively and abusively. It’s a thing that most managers (especial middle layer managers) have two faces, one for sucking up to upper, one for abusing peers or their direct reports. Quality line manager is nonexistent. How many more lawsuit (arbitrations/litigations) does it take for Arm to take steps to address the toxic cultures in PDG? By the way, HR by nature is against you and is to protect the company being sued at all cost. You should prepare for an exit route if you plan to stand up to your line manager for his/hers bullying/abusive behavior in this physical design group organisation. Seems like majority of the dissatisfy reviews are referring to PDG based on the job titles.

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