Arm Reviews

Pros

The people are nice to work with, appreciative and bright.

The work/life balance is respected and many people have a keen focus on diversity and inclusion.

ARM focus on their strengths of solving tough problems and where appropriate use third parties and build success with partners. ARM don't try to do everything or win at everything. My perception is that ARM focus on an area they add value and then do a polished professional job of delivering it.

The overall compensation is highly competitive - some of my team are starting to take their sabbatical's (4 week paid holiday every 4 years - only 3 years to go :-)

I love the trust and autonomy. Despite ARM having over 4500 employees it does not feel like a bureaucratic machine. As a leader I can honestly say that there are few things which you must do in a particular way or slow me down. The processes are pragmatic and mostly there to be made up or tweaked to fit your purpose.

Advice to Management

Keep focussed on the ARM values and make sure the rapid growth and shift into new markets do not demotivate and confuse people and create slow downs in some of the key foundations that the product teams rely upon e.g. hiring, legal.

Look to learn lessons from organisations that have gone through big transformations and growth in the past e.g. IBM one of my previous employers.

Pros

People are very nice and easy to work with.
Excellent benefit package and keep improving.
Very good work/life balance.
Free on-site parking.
Free snacks and fruits, coffee maker.

Pros

Smart people, company is focused on making it an even better place to work, opportunity to make a difference

Advice to Management

Be bold in your decisions and communicate a clear strategy to empower your really smart and talented workforce.

Pros

- excellent benefits
-Working with the best of the best
-flexible working
-People will always help you out if you need it
-You can talk to senior management and feel like you are being heard
-positive outlook
-excellent facilities (we really are spoilt)
-brilliant culture where trust and individualism is embraced and collaboration is celebrated

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing
Manage the big changes more effectively
Don't be afraid to make decisions without full consensus

Pros

Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, excellent work environment and a culture that encourages innovation and creativity, great benefits and work life balance, highly capable and motivated work force led well by the top level management. Company ethos is one of a responsible and caring industry leader rather than a company that is only interested in profits and abuse of it's market share.

Advice to Management

Recent reorg is a step in the right direction, Encourage more shared development amongst various engineering groups

Pros

Clear policy, transparency, respect employees feedback, keen on employees well-being, conversations with higher management

Advice to Management

Keep talking to people in ARM across all levels/teams

Pros

very flat structure. opinion of all employees is valued. a group culture. no top down directives. very dynamic in structure and re-structure. Easy to move horizontally.

Advice to Management

be bold !

Pros

Flexible Working
Arm embraces flexible working and this makes my life far easier, enabling me to balance between work and home life. I have never experienced this level of flexibility in previous employment.

Benefits
Some excellent benefits that are accessible to all employees! Recently introduced flexible benefits pot - AMAZING! The pot is to support health and wellbeing outside of work, never had a benefit like this before but can't wait to use it.

People
The team I work with are amazing, I am lucky to have the opportunity to work with people who live by Arms core beliefs and who I can learn from

Advice to Management

Ensure that your managers are leading and not managing! Leaders need to understand their impact, shadow they cast and the core beliefs they should be living by.

Pros

FlexPot for wellbeing/charitable giving/development.
4 week sabbatical every 4 years.
Health insurance.
Personal travel insurance.
Great culture, approachable management at all levels.

Advice to Management

Remember that the smaller sites have different needs to the corporate whole. Personal service can still happen there, even if the larger hubs, by their nature, work on a more formal service architecture.

Pros

Excellent benefits, strong work-life balance, passionate and interesting colleagues, good communication from top levels on the status of current projects and the direction of the company.