I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arm in Jan 2010
Interview
There was a posting by the staffing agency about the job requirement at ARM holding on linkedin.. I responded to that requirement... And then the recruiter from staffing agency contacted me, breifed me about the job profile, and sought my cv for forwarding to arm.. My cv got shotlisted and telephonic technical interview was scheduled with ARM hiring manager... following were few discussion points during the interview..
1 The Manager briefed me about job requirement, ..
2 He asked me to expain the Projects and the skill sets projected in the CV
3. and then he peppered me with few technical C++ questions
a) what is the key word "static" mean
b) what is the key word "Virtual" mean
c) what does the compiler translate this keywords
4. further He wanted to understand the reason for change,
5. He asked my willingness to relocate and my expected salary
6. he said that he would get back to me with a face to face interview schedule...
However for some reason, i did not hear anything from ARM about the face to face interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Arm in Nov 2008
Interview
I was interviewed by one of the top principal engineers in ARM, a very knowledgeable person. There were two people interviewing me , they asked mostly technology questions. The whole process was relaxed and they made me feel at home immediately. They were casual and gentle in asking questions, and helped me in places i got stuck.
They had a list of errors in code and asked me to debug it on paper, it was a nice exercise, and helped me to prove myself. The answers i gave there were the ones that probably impressed them and i was given an offer after that.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Asked to find C++ errors in a written code on paper.