ARM Holdings Reviews

Former Employee – worked at ARM Holdings as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Friendly & helpful employees, good salary, excellent experience.

Cons – Nothing I can think of.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The vacation package, health benefits and RSUs are really good. Nice location in South Austin. Opportunity to get to know ARM processors really well. Green initiatives

Cons – No travel. Kind of penny pinching culture. No cafeteria on site. Prefers external hire over internal promotions.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to give employees more career options.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for more than a year

Pros – This is the largest company I've worked for but the engineering and marketing staff are all very intelligent and productive. Benefits are top notch.

Cons – Legal department is understaffed and hyper conservative when it comes to open source because of their IP business. Lots of red-tape. IT is conservative but needfully so I suppose. Working outside the mothership (Cambridge) makes us a bit 2nd class citizens unless you're willing to travel to Europe and APAC frequently.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good compensation.
Intelligent Engineers
Open Communication
Great vacations
month long Sabbatical every 4 years
Good 401K plan (6% of base pay.)
Growing Stock
free soda
Great GYM

Cons – Growing Pains
Getting too corporatey
Not a small company anymore.
More time spent on paper work tnan actual design
increasing hierarchy of managers

Advice to Senior Management – Grow with caution

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings as an intern for less than a year

Pros – ARM is a rising star in the hardware world, and a great place to get your foot in the door and learn about processor design. People are nice, the dress code is relaxed, free soda and the occasional office party are fun perks. The salary is competitive and the hours are regular (as an intern, 8 hours a day was expected and no more).

Cons – As an intern, it is easy to get stuck with the grunt work. I spent the whole summer doing the lowest tier of validation (functional coverage) and didn't learn as much as I would have with a more dynamic and challenging workload (think testbench design, stimulus, etc). Just make it clear at the outset you want interesting work and I'm sure your manager will shuffle you some good stuff though.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - Good 401K match
- Good number of days of vacation
- Open door upward feedback policy
- Still have free soda and coffee

Cons – - RSU grant - Number of shares granted have been reduced by 80% and it makes easier for employee make decision leaving the company.
- IT is becoming slower response
- ESPP cannot be sold immediately after being vested. Selling price is shooting in the dark.
- Complicated choices of software. More time wasted on feeding the software than productive

Advice to Senior Management – To keep talent from leaving, either discount ESPP to 20%-30% and set the price for 2 years, and/or increase RSU back to where it was.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Nice work culture, colleagues and managers ! Small teams and high productivity. Scope of learning is high, so great place for graduates

Cons – Schedules too tight and have to work late hours and weekends !

Advice to Senior Management – If employees put so many hours including weekends, take good care by paying more !

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ARM Holdings as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Great Technology, Great Engineering, Great potential for future.

Cons – Demand Generation and Marketing eons behind competitors. Poor Management, even worse communication. Proper investments need to be made into supporting resources and marketing technology. Overall ARM Marketing is woefully understaffed and, in some cases, overwhelmed. Culture of blame instead of culture of collaboration. The marketing cubicles on the 1st floor has to be the one of the unhappiest places in the world.

Advice to Senior Management – Fix Marketing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great presence in microprocessor. The company has great future next couple of years.

Cons – Poor culture with limited potential of the senior management who are not strategic thinkers and lack the experience of managing a growing company

Advice to Senior Management – Think 5 year planning

Current Employee – been working at ARM Holdings

Pros – Two years ago working in ARM IT was little bit OK
good recognition and good bonus,
we had good benefits like holidays etc

Cons – If you are non UK , they will just use you and they will through you one fine day without any notice and also they are very cunning when they fire you ,they do that just before you get your stock vesting period or before the bonus period,
be careful

IT department they are completely lost their focus and they are in confusion
They don't know how to run the IT department , all obsolete technologies
please think twice before you join IT

Advice to Senior Management – Hi Management,

My humble Request to you is please don't take decisions without proper evidence from the real end users , don't relay on middle level mangers feedback
you are loosing lot of talented people
It is also demotivating other folks in the team

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend