Pros
- Intellectually stimulating and enjoyable work, with directly visible impact on the CPUs Arm produces. - Friendly culture, others are very willing to help - happy office culture. - Management pretty 'ad-hoc' - accommodating with things as long as you reach an agreement with your line manager - Often flexible with working times, as long as you attend all important meetings and do on average 7.5h a day. - Mature organization - lots of capacity for you to genuinely feel supported. - Can work up to 60% of time remotely (+ up to 1 month from abroad), and everyone spending >40% of time in office means off-the-cuff conversations still happen and you have company. - 25 days holiday, options for unpaid leave (<5 days no questions asked, more can be negotiated), supportive of circumstances requiring non-holiday paid leave (parental, progressive, bereavement etc.) - Opportunities for training, secondments, rotations (as a graduate engineer) - You learn and develop valuable experience. - I'm pretty happy here!
Cons
- Office is on the edge of Cambridge next to a field and far from the 'city', nearest useful amenity is a Tesco hypermarket 15 minutes away, you won't be going out for lunch. - The Arm campus does have a gym/cafeteria, useful but can mean you spend a lot of time at your 'workplace' (pretty minor gripe though). - Finding affordable accommodation in Cambridge is a serious challenge (incredibly so as a new starter/intern) - expensive and in short supply. No paid overtime - overtime not encouraged but not always culturally discouraged either, but so long as you're strict with yourself about your work hours it's a non-issue. - Top management is becoming more 'USA corporate' but still pretty good, current CEO has been with Arm for ~10y and has an engineering background