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 23% above average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Oct 1, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good balance, lots of vacation and flexibility.

Cons

Salary is not competitive, no stocks. Bonus is like peanuts. Other benefits are okay at best. They seem to only hire when there are layoffs in other companies (Oracle/Qualcomm/Samsung etc.). Not a good sign. Experienced folks have been leaving left, right and center. Managements solution is to hire new people. Nothing is being done to reward the people who have been here. Yes new folks are good but don't forget the employees who made arm what it is. Vacation/flexibility is being offered by every company nowadays, not something to tout about. This is all I hear management talking about. These are no longer incentives. Don't see any growth career wise, some teams seem to be preferred over others when it comes to promotions.

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Arm Response
6y
We are sorry to hear you don't feel valued based on your contribution. We certainly don't believe reward and progression are based on tenure. Arm's promotional guidelines are available on the intranet and these can be helpful in preparing you to have a conversation with your line manager, around what is needed in order to achieve your promotion. For further support on this topic, please don't hesitate to reach out to your local Talent Development Team.
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
3.0
May 14, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

This is the place to be if you like being at the beginning of a tech revolution. Compensation for my job is quite generous and most other employers won't even attempt to match it.

Cons

If you like personal space you won't get it here. Management insists on bringing more people on board and then pretends like the offices defy the laws of space like the TARDIS. If you want to be promoted I'd recommend looking elsewhere. If there's a choice to promote someone or hire from outside, 90% of the time it is always the latter decision. Management also doesn't feel that taking on more responsibility and stress merits a pay rise either. Upper management over the past year has done very well insulating itself from upward feedback. Employee surveys are conducted but results are spun in a fashion that'd make the best politicians jealous.

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Arm Response
11y
Thanks for your honest feedback. Since we have grown so big so fast, it's hard to find the space to put people sometimes. Depending on your location, we are looking to address that with new buildings. In Austin, the new building being built can't get here quick enough, while the Cambridge office is also looking to expand some as well. Feedback from surveys are being listened to, and we are taking strides to address them quicker, with the revamp of the TAP and AFDS. So instead of doing a big course correction once a year, we're looking to do more frequent checkins to quickly adjust in short bursts. -Rick C. Social Recruiting Manager
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