Arm Reviews

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Whilst the business has stemmed from a foundation of 'partnering' there are some areas that seek approval more than others, which create a foundation for difficult conversations. But with that being said, the business is adapting, changing and evolving into what the world needs today- with exponential growth, fractures from longer-standing individuals appear due to change. Personally, I don't see this a negative, but rather a positive - Arm is full of opportunity, challenges, pace and change and will suit people like me that thrive in that sort of an environment- if this sounds like somewhere you, like me will thrive - come and join our tribe :)

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Workload, systems integration, lack of pace

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Senior Management changing to US based alpha males with the American hire/fire culture becoming more common

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Stressful and challenging work always

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little pay for what you do

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Rapidly running out of space - less ideal working conditions

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Administration and politics are getting more important than before. Thids is due to the company has been growing fast recently.

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The increasing presence of politics in the company can be distracting

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In my role I work closely with the engineering community to deliver projects but also the management community, who seem to be widely inept and ineffective.

The commercial areas get promotions far more quickly than the engineering groups so you will notice a huge number of directors and senior directors who don't have a good idea of what they're doing who play politics and mind-games and who are usually a hindrance to the success of engineering projects.

Annually we see those people get promoted over far more competent people despite lackluster delivery and ignorance of the Arm (HR's) behaviors. How? By knowing other people at high grades and playing politics. I have to report to a number of these senior directors and their lack of basic knowledge of our own products drives me crazy.

This year we had two consecutive rounds of people let go but no senior people were affected. Instead it seems that engineers were the primary target which has led to a low morale in my team and an uncertainty for 2019.

The executive committee makes constant reorganisations moves people around. The last reorg is superceded by a new reorg just in time when people get used to their new positions and team names. We have had 4 such reorganisations in the last 6 months companywide. The CEO is never to be found only really visible during the quarterly updates & annual e-mail. He has not done anything to solve any of the major issues plaguing the company.

Functions are substandard. The usual commentary on Glassdoor is about IT which offers horrible systems has been outsourced so much that even simple IT tickets can't be answered well and cant even support a good conferencing application. The company as a whole has lost thousands of engineering days trying to make our tools work. What has happened to the IT management team? They have been promoted. Other teams are even worse.

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Company is facing some growing strains as it transitions from a UK based tech company to a more Global company.