Staff Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Arm with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff Engineer roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arm overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Arm as a Staff Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
Skills test: 21%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
Personality test: 14%
One on one interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Arm (Bengaluru) in Mar 2023
Interview
Four rounds of interview 3 tech round mostly around debugs and cpu architecture, few puzzle, few assembly writing, algo for some scripts 1 on profile and current roles and responsibilities All telephonic
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How OOO works, how will u validate memory, some questions around cache cohrancy, then puzzles which are there on internet
I applied online. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England)
Interview
The interview was as expected, friendly and polite, got to know the requirements but also expressed my capabilities in detail and discussed my experience in the field. Just your average experience
Process is simple, be true to yourself and should be good for embedded programming. You should be well aware of architecture and basic data structure questions. There were 3 rounds and each round had 2 panelists.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a c API to take 2 generic data as arg and compare it
2. Advantages of MMU.
3. Count number of nodes in link list without traversing each node
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Arm (Bangalore Rural) in Apr 2023
Interview
1st telephonic : more about ur work and how relevent it is to the work they do
3tech : all tech question like how OOO works, how branch misprediction is handled in OOO,
then explain paging who VA-PA translation happens what all cases hardware take care of TLB invalidation and when does user need to do
1HR : salary discussion
its bit slow process but one thing which was good is once ur tech round it done and if its positive u will get results really quick thats in day or max 2
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
misprediction is handled in OOO,
then explain paging who VA-PA translation happens what all cases hardware take care of TLB invalidation and when does user need to do
1 HR: on salary and expectation