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      4.5

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (2,630 total reviews)
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      Rene Haas

      93% approve of CEO

      88% positive business outlook

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      4.4

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      4.4

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      4.4

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      4.4

      Career opportunities

      4.1

      Senior management

      Arm has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,630 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Arm employee rating is 23% above average for employers within the Informatique industry (3.7 stars).

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      2.0
      Nov 14, 2017

      The feudal system is alive and well in Arm...

      Senior principal engineer
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      Pros

      The work can be interesting and you get to work with some bright, interesting people.

      Cons

      1. Lack of career development... The feudal system is alive and well at Arm! If you want to progress you need to either enter into a marriage of convenience, build an empire or conquer and steal someone else's. 2. Constant re-organisation... Arm has little care for the employees caught in these manovours. The net effect of the constant shifting organisational structure is lots of very smart people being constantly displaced in favour of those who tow the line and will do as they are told without question. 3. Middle management with no vision... See point 2. the people who get promoted to the middle lack creativity, they are not disruptive they execute regardless of whether the plan make sense or not. 4. Out of touch upper level management... There is at least one very public example of a senior figure re-writing history for the purpose of self promotion. The resentment simmering in the reporting line was plain for all to see apart from the person involved it seems! Similarly Mr Segar's himself is seeing a version of reality different to those on the ground. 5. A highly creative workforce being crushed by grind and lack of leadership... In the world of the FTSE 100 you are only as good as your ability to hit a quarter. Arm devolved from a "innovate to survive" culture to a sausage factory churning out product after product to feed the licensing machine. Innovation only happens if it's for free and fits with in the schedule for the next release. This does the very talented people that work at ARM a disservice. 6. A non-executable growth plan The growth that Masa Son promised the UK government is almost impossible to deliver. The talent pool does not exist in the UK at present. In a post brexit world Europeans are difficult to attract and with the tightening visa requirements its harder and more expensive to bring in people from other parts of the world. What advice have hiring managers been given in this environment? "Lower your expectations." Quite apart from this Arm can't actually house all the people with the facility's plan that's currently in place. The solution? Give everyone a smaller desk and increase the density.

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      Thank you for sharing your views. We are at a stage in our growth where we are making changes to scale up our organisation to take on new challenges so your feedback on how you are experiencing this is appreciated. We want Arm to continue to be a great place to work and so your views are important. The recent re-organisation has resulted in a large number of new opportunities being created, with many people moving in to new roles and new teams. Without knowing your specific circumstances it’s not possible to comment on your own career development desires or opportunities, but I can comment in general terms - in the last few years we’ve put new development programs in place to help senior staff to transition in to new leadership roles, and we’ve recently created a new initiative for those engineers who are interested in moving in to Engineering Management roles. Arm’s growth has created a large number of opportunities in recent years, with many new opportunities expected in future years also. If you do not feel happy with your career development, please do speak to the relevant people business partner for your group or your line manager. Arm has made two large organisation changes in the last 4 years, both necessary to improve our focus on key markets and to ensure that we continue to be an effective organisation as we grow. Change does bring disruption, this is inevitable as we structure the organisation for the next phase of growth and we do appreciate your feedback on how it is affecting the people on the ground so to speak. In regards to your comments around leadership and management, one of our core beliefs is ‘we, not I’. We recognise that brilliance is what comes from the talents of individuals working together and we believe in empowering teams to deliver. This year we introduced core beliefs for leaders and embarked on a coaching programme to help our leadership and management teams inspire and manage their teams in a way that aligns with our culture and values. Only through inviting and responding to feedback will we be able to embed these important habits. We appreciate it is important that we both deliver and innovate, because delivery finances innovation and innovation is what continues to make us successful today. Innovation happens at multiple levels through our day to day work, and higher-level innovation initiatives is where we want to encourage more participation. The ArmIdeas program, which was announced recently, supports bandwidth for higher level innovation projects and we are looking to see how we evolve this over time. In regards to growth, we remain on track to meet the commitment that Masa made. Although Arm is growing in all regions, the UK remains our largest talent pool, and organisationally we have committed to continue to grow teams in the UK. Lowering of expectations is not a message that has been delivered from senior management, nor would it ever be – our people are why we are successful, and high quality co-workers is often one of the reasons listed by Arm employees as to why they enjoy working at Arm. If you have received a different message then I would ask that you challenge this. Please do feel that you can come and approach me directly as it is incredibly important that we take on feedback from our colleagues across the world in order to continue to make Arm a place where people love to come to work. Thanks, Gary Campbell, SVP Engineering
      1.0
      Apr 19, 2022

      Arm was such a great company to work for... now lost at sea

      Director
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      Pros

      Great people to work with, smart, talented, always collaborating to achieve the great good for the company. Best company I had worked for when I join in 2015. Benefits, flexible work environment, company reputation and industry leadership and impact made it a company one was proud to work for.

      Cons

      Under Softbank and with the Nvidia failed acquisition, the company is losing its way and the culture that made it such an industry jewel is melting away towards becoming political, nepotistic, solidly drifting towards a good old boys club. Middle management favors loyalty to skills and accomplishments, graces on yesterday's successes and enjoys stealing their troops' thunder (though it does matter which Line of Business or function one works for). The company now only cares about the IPO valuation target set by Softbank and is going through a 15% lay-off on a year where revenues are up 30% while hemorrhaging its best and brightest. Sadly, long gone are the days of being proud working for Arm.

      2.0
      Jul 18, 2016

      Mr. Segars, what have you done?

      Senior software engineer
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      Pros

      This is a bittersweet review. Had I written this a month ago, it would be a 5 star rating, and I would approve of pretty much every decision that has been made with regards to how the company is run. Since you, the reader, may be reading this wondering whether to pursue or accept a position at ARM I suggest you read this first before making the decision to do so. Let me discuss what ARM is at the time of writing. ARM is more than a successful technology company. It is a carefully cultivated and maintained engineering paradise. Not only do you work with some of the best engineers in the world on a day to day basis, but the company culture is something special. Employees here are not treated as human resources on a sheet, but rather you feel like you are being invested in by the company. The company trusts its employees to get the job done, and only hire the best to do so. You don't need to become a manager to progress up the company ladder. Engineers are venerated. There are so many different, amazing, divisions within ARM that you can potentially transfer to if you'd like, or at the very least get exposure to. We're looking into the future with things like servers, HPC and VR. If you're interested in games technology we have Enlighten in house. If you like image processing we'd just acquired Apical. If you like CPU design, or GPU design, or security, we've got that! You feel like the work that you do on a day to day basis touches millions of lives. This is one of the few technology companies that gives you a sense of being excited to stay and work at for the rest of your career. The salaries are great, but then again, Cambridge is hellishly expensive to live in. Stock options are good and get better with your position in the company hierarchy.

      Cons

      The only downside to date is that all of the above potentially means nothing now. I say potentially because it looks likely that SoftBank, a Japanese telecommunications giant which admittedly very few of us in ARM had ever heard of before, will be our new masters (check the news). Not just shareholders, no. We're selling the whole company. And for what? We've listened to the justifications put forth, and they did not inspire. They said that we're getting great premiums on our stock units. That's great, I guess. Let's hope they have some other new incentive to give us after the buy out. They said that we're going to need the investment. Why? ARM has market dominance that few companies will ever have. We have a licensing and royalty model that is bringing in tons of cash. We're hiring good people as fast as we can find them. They said that the SoftBank's vision for the future aligns with ARM's. For many things this may be true.. but let's be honest here. A Japanese telecommunications giant with an interest in robotics and IoT probably does not care about lighting technology for video games as much. Or VR, or GPUs.. or Imaging. It may take 5 years, or 10 years, but eventually things are going to diverge, tough times will appear, promises aren't going to be remembered, and lots of loyal staff are going to be left out in the cold. They'll say it was sad, and unfortunate, and they tried, but you were, "Just not core to the business." Perhaps I don't know all the details as I should, and perhaps there's more to this story. Perhaps. But it feels like a bad idea, and nothing any of us have heard from the CEO changes that opinion. It hasn't been sold well, and none of my colleagues want to be owned by a far away entity. We valued ARM's independence and liked working at the centre, and were proud to work for a British company. Now it feels as if we are doomed to be another appendage to an out of country corporation.

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