Arm

3,0

24 mrt 2017

Aanbevelen

Goedkeuring directeur

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Pluspunten

- I really enjoy all my coworkers. Generally speaking, everyone is nice and open to talk to you. - Health insurance and facilities are nice - I think company has a bright future, technology-wise. Intel should be concerned about ARM. - Growing company. Softbank acquisition hasnt affected day to day work.

Minpunten

My following comments come from the vast majority of my collegues, its not just my opinion. - No lateral movement within the company. Near impossible. Managers and HR will say the right things but its just not true (dont believe them). Only a single colleague I know of was approved to move to another team. The funny thing is that he actually had to wait two plus years after the approval to be able to move and that only happened because he threaten to quit ARM. Even within a single team, this happens. Eg. the "fetch guy" will keep working on fetch unit, he'll rarely get to do anything else (loadstore, commit, etc). Why does this happen? Cause management only cares about results; moving laterally is just risk for them, not growth. They acknowledged this two-three years ago (at least on a couple of teams) by asking employees what they wanted to work on but nothing happened. Colleagues are still doing the same thing. - Moving vertical is just as hard, if not harder. Its hard to get promoted. Even after "exceptional" reviews many ppl dont get promoted. This is because your promotion candidacy goes to a panel made up of many leads across several different teams. If they havent heard from you, you are screwed. Its just not fair and many friends complain about the process w no changes. - Staff/principal engineers keep doing what they do best, lots of cool stuff, and they pad themselves on their backs. Meanwhile, lower grade engineers are stucked with the 'extra' stuff even though you could argue they are just as qualified to do the more interesting work. - No free food, no free coke products, and a unclean-low-grade, soap-like, starbucks-wanna-be coffee (we tried to get a better local Austin coffee but request got rejected by facility manager even after presenting survey results showing everybody in the sute preferred the local one). - The cafeteria is "subsadicied" but its still better to just go and eat somewhere else given their prices/quality.

Reactie van Arm

Thanks for leaving your honest review. There was a lot to cover, so please bear with me for the lengthy response. As you mentioned, we have a lot of great things going for us at ARM, with a positive and nice working environment and great employees. That said and as with other companies, we have areas we can improve on to make it even better. Internal mobility is encouraged, with resources on the ARM Intranet dedicated to this subject. Networking with other teams and line managers can help with the name recognition, so that when that team does have an opening, they may consider you. Grade levels are open and transparent in SAP/Successfactors, and determined based on the value each employee brings to the company. For career growth, I recommend visiting the Talent Development intranet page, as that offers a wealth of resources on how to advance your career. In addition, all ARM employees have free access to lynda.com, where you can learn a variety of skills. Regarding food, while it is not free, it is subsidized as you mentioned. There are only a few large tech companies that offer free food, while the vast majority offer subsidized cafeterias for their employees. It is important to remember that if we offered free food in Austin, we would want to offer it to all offices, including the smaller ones without a cafeteria, as we wish to provide a similar work environment for all employees, regardless of office location. We do offer free La Croix sparkling water as an alternative to Coke products, as it is a healthier option. This goes with the very generous health insurance that ARM provides its employees. An alternative, local coffee for the Austin office is still in discussion (I am personally in the email chain) and if procured, there will be an announcement in the weekly Austin newsletter. I invite you to come back next year with an update, as employees are able to leave reviews once a year! -Rick C. Employer Brand and Social Media Specialist

It needs to improve or people will start leaving - werkgeversreview Senior Design Engineer bij Arm

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