Arm reviews

4.5

90% would recommend to a friend

(2,636 total reviews)
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Rene Haas

93% approve of CEO

88% positive business outlook

Arm has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,636 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Arm employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jul 25, 2016

Bad Experience

Recommend
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Pros

What others mentioned Vacation, health Some people are good.

Cons

like other people mentioned that PIPD team is a very bad jobs experience. Nothing happens here in San Jose. Management keeps changing and now they have imported someone from outside group to manage key projects. Very poor and arrogant management. You don't learn anything here. Lots of politics and lots finger pointing.

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Arm Response
9y
Thanks for leaving a review. My apologies for a late response, as I generally try to respond to reviews in a timely manner. First, thank you for your over 5 years of service. If you are still with ARM, you will know that we recently restructured the organization in to two distinct groups: IPG and ISG. We have a lot of growth ahead of us, with the separation allowing us focus on growing the businesses independently of each other without the need to report to shareholders. Talent Development is an important part of ARM, and one that I feel that could use more recognition. There are numerous courses that you can take internally from the Talent Development intranet page to help develop any additional skills you require for your function or you can take external courses/conferences that are needed and get reimbursed by ARM. Additionally, as an ARM employee you have access to lynda.com, so you can also use that platform to learn new soft and hard skills, be it in management, public speaking or even coding in a new language. I do invite you to come back and leave another review in 4 more months, as Glassdoor allows users to leave a review once a year. Hopefully many of the comments you have will have already been addressed! -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
5.0
Jul 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Global impact across much of computing from mobile, TVs, automotive, microcontrollers and soon servers and IoT - Opportunities to travel and work with a massive distribution of customers across nearly all aspects of computing - Large opportunities to progress for those willing to work hard, but also support for those who wish to continue to perform well at their current positions - Great company culture around employee development and co-work to success. - Excellent work life balance especially sabbatical (4-week block of extra holiday every 4 years of service)

Cons

- A few growing pains due to recent growth - With increasing customers and commitments there is less time for spontaneous creativity (i.e. innovation)

1.0
Jul 21, 2016

worst job experience

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits - free medical/dental/vision, 401K match, good RSU grants, and bonus plan Decent salary Good vacation plan if you can take it.

Cons

IP group is in shambles. Management has no vision and very limited knowledge. Dictatorship and if you don't fall in line you will get bad reviews. Very poor management skills. No one cares about the employees. Highly unprofessional environment. Most of the engineers don't know anything.

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Arm Response
9y
Thanks for leaving a review. The majority of the reviews on Glassdoor have been positive, though not everyone will have the same experience. That said, the job experience you describe is not one I have heard in my time here at ARM. ARM benefits are quite generous as you mentioned, and we have a new reward structure in place with our acquisition from Softbank, due to the fact that we no longer have stock to give out as reward for performance. The company is built on meritocracy, with job assignments based on ability and talent. If you did not feel that you were treated fairly while at ARM, then my recommendation would have been to first consult with your line manager on your career progress. If the line manager is why you felt you were treated unfairly, then I would have recommended you connect with the People Business Partner, as they are there to help ensure that each group operates effectively and efficiently. To your comment on the IP group in shambles, with no vision/limited knowledge from Management, we recently restructured the organization in to two distinct groups: IPG, which focuses on the licenses technology we provide to semiconductor companies and ISG the ​IoT Services Group, which operates security and management services for connected devices. We did this so as to focus on growing the business to reach our desired goal of have 1 trillion connected devices in the next 20 years. -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
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