Big company with big problems - Senior Engineer Arm Employee Review

3.0
Oct 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary for the market. Possibility to work with very high-end technologies. Long career in the company if you survive the managers scrutiny.

Cons

Full of arrogant mid-managers that never opened a design in life. Your experience really depends on your manager, and not all of them follow the HR recommendations, mainly the older ones. Many departments operate in silos. If you had a problem with your manager, you're screwed because that goes to your profile and it will reflect on your whole working life in the company. Every 5 years they purge the system and promote massive layoffs. In 2018, 200 people were "invited" to leave the company. The company has massively changed since SoftBank takeover, mostly for bad.

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Arm Response
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Change within companies can be challenging, it’s true that Arm is no longer a small start-up business, but a 7000+ organisation that touches the lives of more than 70% of the world’s population through technology. So we understand it may feel different for some of those who have been with us through the Softbank acquisition. Whilst it seems you are no longer at Arm, I would like to pick up with you on the comment regarding management and process. Would you be open to following up with me? I’m keen to understand your experience in a little more detail and whilst I may not be able to put this right for you, it could help us in terms of where we need to focus to ensure Arm is a great place to work for everyone. I’m contactable on aylin.halil@arm.com and looking forward to hearing from you.

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