Arm Senior Software Developer reviews

4.4

93% would recommend to a friend

(135 total reviews)
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Rene Haas

96% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Arm with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 135 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Arm is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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135 reviews
2.0
Mar 11, 2016
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Pros

1. open work culture : Everyone work in cubicles and accessible . You can just walk and have discussion. 2. Profitable business model 3. Potential of good projects 4. Work life balance 5. global exposure

Cons

1. Food : Food is big concern and no action has been taken by company .Feedback register in cafeteria it is filled about this. and these reviews are coming for long time . Here on glassdoor also in some reviews people have mentioned about food quality and that was also 4 months back This may not concern married people who bring their lunch-box from home. 2. Timing : Second thing is timing . Senior management don't follow the rule regarding timing but expects from you to spend 8-9 hours in company even there is no work. Many times you don't know that the senior person is WFH or leave. They don't even care to drop a mail. 3. Salary Salary is competitive . But since food and timing are also issues . This point take driving seat ARM is not highest payer in market . People put extra efforts and start to find opportunities with other market leaders where they are paid way above ARM and it is not that difficult for talented software engineers. 4. HR team : HR team just completes formalities. They take so much time to make final offer to a candidate even after clearance from managers that he/she finds other job offer in that time period. Feedbacks are just for that employee can feel that he is being heard . HR and facility teams highly lack motivation to do good work . Maybe ARM is not paying them good enough. With current state of things you can survive in market but never can be a leader.

4.0
Feb 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of work opportunities, stock options, more ethical and good work life balance

Cons

Not very competitive compensation, very manager centric and not fun place to work at all.

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Arm Response
10y
Thanks for leaving a review. As noted in previous review responses, we have noticed the increase of reviews from the Bangalore office. All reviews are being reviewed by the regional People team Manager as well Guru to see where we need to address the issues these reviews are bringing to light. In regards to salary, a complete review was done last year to address regions/groups, with salary adjustments as needed. All employees should now be in the 75% band, which means that you salary will be higher than 75% of other people with similar titles/functions in your region. Once you factor in bonuses as well as the RSUs, the total compensation is quite competitive! -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
1.0
Feb 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are a software engineer, a big NO, never ever think about joining ARM. Good for others

Cons

ARM is good place for non-Software peoples. Below review is for software engineers(or equivalent) at Bangalore office 1) Managers are just playing game with the global company. They have established a big team just for few simple tools so that they can relax at their will and at the same time global company will think they are doing great job. 2) Work is very monotonous which doesnt need any intellect at all and no knowledge gain over time. So, skill developement in 1 year is almost same as that will be in 10 years. 3) Strict work timing: managers dont care how hard or smart work you have done, they will just see your presence or the work timings.As there will not be any skill developement over time or there are no such work which required smart or hard work , what should be the measure of your work performance then? Its only the "work timing". 4) Software peoples have adapted the existing culture. They dont socialize much. They just complete their work timing and rush home. Also most managers dont so much productive work, they just pass time in team meetings , coffee or facebook etc. or simply "work" from home.

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Arm Response
10y
Thank you for leaving a review. I'm disappointed to read your review, as it is eye opening to hear some of the things you are describing from the Bangalore office. While most people think of ARM as a hardware company, in truth we are about 50% hardware and 50% software engineers. If half of the engineers at the company are not happy, we definitely would not be as successful as we are today. I will pass along this review to the relevant parties and if you do have additional feedback, please do reach out to your local HR Business Partner. Without feedback, we wouldn't know anything was wrong! -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
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