Arm Reviews

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The increasing presence of politics in the company can be distracting

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

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- lack of transparency on promotions and raises.
- lots of project changes, reorganizations, redundancies

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Arm is turbulent at the moment. Several rounds of redundancy following recent acquisitions.

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Base salary as part of the total package should be higher

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Useless management, no clear plan for future, very toxic atmosphere.
Latest great idea from brilliant management is moving office from Loughborough to Manchester.
If you're by any chance desperate enough to look for a job there, think about this:
- All management (from line managers above) is only looking after their own "performance reviews", if one of them do something wrong, they will all cover for each other from HQ,
- There are more management then engineers, and there are always some rearrangements in hierarchy, every time they wanna cut cost of R&D they will get rid of engineers, not management (this is company-wide issue),
- IT support is useless, overall IT security is joke (can't give more details on this one here),
- You'll get brainwashed by "we not i", "be your brilliant self" and other mission statements, in a form of meetings from HR people, and no one really knows what it stands for and how to apply it, it one of skills of HR people which is wasting engineers time,
- Also as someone once said you'll get career plan review, where you'll talk to HR person who just graduated and have no real work experience and they are supposed to help plan your career.

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Slow moving organisation, put too much focus on building consensus.

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Taking design authority guidance from IT Architects that have less knowledge than I do with Windows and server\cloud infrastructure. Look up some of the Architects for the company on linkedin you will see next to no technical certifications and a career history certainly that shows they are out of their depth. Having to take advice from these people that know far less than I do is not typical in other organisations.

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Working in a silos without visibility

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The recent hiring limitations are putting strain on teams already stretched thin, and a lack of compensation and recognition amongst hard workers lower down the food chain is breeding widespread contempt. Numerous projects suffer from the bus factor, and overly ambitious sprints and bureacracy leave little to no room for addressing arising technical debt in many projects.

Compensation is good but the rapidly-rising cost of living in Cambridge is likely to become completely unsustainable for graduate hiring, which now seems to make up 99% of all hiring in CE-OSS - another time sink for stretched engineers - and for most employees in their 20s it is not financially feasible to see through the life goals that many older engineers saw through in their own 20s.