Arm Reviews

Pros

Arm has a good sense of community and the core beliefs are strongly regarded by employees and leadership.

Cons

Because Arm is growing fast we are feeling some of the pains of change. The way we work and determining who to contact or partner with isn't as simple to define as it used to be.

Pros

Great benefits 4 week sabbatical every 4 years 4 weeks starting vacation, 5 weeks after 4 years 26 weeks of maternity leave, 8 weeks paternity leave Brilliant engineers that are genuinely helpful Strong advocate of Diversity and Inclusion Internal social network service allows us to be expressive Great stepping stone towards higher paying companies

Cons

BURN OUT. If you are an RTL/Verification/Performance Engineer, then you now have to balance between working on multiple projects. When I first joined, engineers talked about life outside of Arm. Now all they talk about is how busy they are with no end in sight. A team that used to do monthly team lunches completely stopped and less time is spent improving the processes when we need it more than ever. Going away lunches for engineers who have been at Arm for 15+ years are more common than team lunches. ATTRITION. Top engineers are leaving including fellows. All of them are leaving to higher paying companies and HR and upper management said they have no plans to change our compensation because “people leave managers” and “no one mentioned compensation on their exit interview.” INNOVATION DECLINE. That feeling of starting work on a new project is gone. Projects are now just adding features on existing designs. There’s no time to rewrite things that are out of date or to revisit things that could be worth improving upon.

Pros

People want to do their best work Great office designs Management is engaged in employee growth and development

Cons

Fast paced environment Growing pains associated with rapid ramp-up in headcount after Softbank acquisition

Pros

Except for PDG. from my interaction with engineers from other departments,It's a pretty good place to work with a decent pay and best in Industry benefits. Highly recommend ARM excluding PDG.

Cons

There were highly inefficient processes and flows. Being in an automation position only manual procedures were handed out. You are expected to just follow orders rather than engineer holistic solutions. There was constant workplace bullying, verbal abuse, threats, humiliation, and intimidation. Toxic and hostile work environment. Swearing and usage of foul language is considered very normal. You are expected to get used to it. Working weekends and late nights are every normal. Projects deadlines are scheduled near the holidays and you are expected to work. There was a lot of racism. H1b employees are preferred. They are considered more compliant. There was hesitation to sponsor green card. Not to mention the racist remarks often made.

Pros

I would recommend this company to a friend but make sure you avoid the PDG organisation at any cost. Majority of other organisations have the British culture and are reasonable.

Cons

In PDG, constant workplace bullying, verbal abuse, threatening, humiliation, and intimidation. It is common for leaders, managers and leader-favorite employees to speak dismissively and abusively. It’s a thing that most managers (especial middle layer managers) have two faces, one for sucking up to upper, one for abusing peers or their direct reports. Quality line manager is nonexistent. How many more lawsuit (arbitrations/litigations) does it take for Arm to take steps to address the toxic cultures in PDG? By the way, HR by nature is against you and is to protect the company being sued at all cost. You should prepare for an exit route if you plan to stand up to your line manager for his/hers bullying/abusive behavior in this physical design group organisation. Seems like majority of the dissatisfy reviews are referring to PDG based on the job titles.