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Excellent learning opportunities and work life balance (in 65 reviews)
great office location and work environment (in 44 reviews)
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bad work life balance / stressful most of the time (in 17 reviews)
The company is growing, but still rather small (in 6 reviews)
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"13 months into an ARM leadership role"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (More than a year)
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.Cons
The nature of the work and lack of previous attention to diversity in team building has led to a narrow set of types of people you get to interact with. I appreciate ARM is taking steps to address this with a Project Everyone programme - I've got involved and hoping to see the positive impact over time.
ARM was formed in Cambridge for designing cpu's. These are not cons, but they weigh heavily as perceptual baggage. ARM is rising up as a company in many world wide locations, who can develop world class software and become dominant in IoT. Despite this Cambridge and hardware sometimes seem to be the perceived places you must be.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.Arm 2017-07-03 05:10 PDT ![Arm Logo]()
"Challenging and rewarding place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Interesting challenges; intelligent, amenable and friendly work environment
Cons
Limited visibility of strategy between company goals and team goals - though they're working on it
Arm 2017-08-13 12:59 PDT![Arm Logo]()
"Great place to work"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Arm full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Work life balance, work env, plenty opportunities around
Cons
Process oriented - very limited scope of the job
Advice to Management
Free food please
Arm 2017-08-04 04:06 PDT![Arm Logo]()
"Great minds and good benefits"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (More than a year)
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Good pay for the area
Many ways to advance
Work with very intelligent peopleCons
Growing very fast and some strain in facilities
Advice to Management
Think more like a big company!
Arm 2017-07-25 07:13 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Great Opportunties in a Fast Growing Business"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (More than a year)
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Smart and motivated colleagues, interesting career challenges, the company understands keeping and recruiting talent is critical to success
Cons
An adolescent company that needs to mature to catch up with its growth, a small (but very vocal minority) of employees that have been there a long time and feel entitled to have say in everything and that change is a bad thing
Advice to Management
Be decisive and bold with your strategy, and empower your talented workforce to implement that strategy - be leaders
Arm 2017-07-14 06:56 PDT![Arm Logo]()
"Software Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Company still on the up, plans to grow further, plenty of opportunity. Good culture, largely politics kept to a minimum, can get the most from just working.
Cons
Lots of change, recently purchased, appears to be going well but has given uncertainty. Benefits no longer can include equity which is sad change but expected.
HQ in UK means affected by Brexit, British employees might be losing their chance to be an EU citizen.
Main site overcapacity, leading to a reduction in the quality of the desk spaceAdvice to Management
Overflow on main site is a problem, potential to see reduced working area size with introduction of straight desks is somewhat a concern. Otherwise, happy to see the former upper echelons of independent ARM are mostly staying.
Arm 2017-07-12 22:29 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Room for improvement"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Arm full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Good Graduate Training Program. Very much focused on research and development so the work can be very interesting. People from diverse locations around the world so has a global feel to the organization. You are working with some of the smartest people in the industry.
Cons
Reactive management so feels like they following trends of leading players in the industry rather than setting them. Very poor diversity in terms of the senior positions in engineering and management in the company.
Arm 2017-07-23 02:32 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Good Company"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOPros
In general a good employer. ARM is growing, fast-paced, lots of opportunities to develop career. The company is full of very smart people.
Cons
Supporting functions are overstretched. Can be difficult to keep a work-life balance. In general, salaries are below the industry level in different areas of the business. No benefits for contractors or fixed term.
Advice to Management
N/A
Arm 2017-06-22 09:28 PDT![Arm Logo]()
"Best employer up to now"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOPros
Open, collaborative culture
Full of super smart, can-do people
Many opportunities in exciting and emerging areas
Significant focus on employee happiness, wellfare, diversity and inclusionCons
Lots of change, which can be unsettling for some
Arm 2017-06-05 09:55 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Senior Software Engineer"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Arm (Less than a year)
Pros
Stable employment, low risk, good people.
Cons
Bit stale and schematic work, not much excitement.
Arm 2017-06-17 13:18 PDT
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