Applications Engineer Interview Experience - Plano, Texas
Process
Applied for the job, and a received an email from a recruiter asking if I was interested in working in the Plano office. After that I was scheduled for a phone interview the next week.
The phone interview was scheduled to be an hour long, but only lasted 10-15 minutes. After the interview, the recruiter emailed me saying they were interested in a second interview at their office (Their company policy mandates that the interview and hiring process is handled by the recruiter so most of my communication was through the recruiter).
The second interview lasted two hours. I was first interviewed by the office manager, and then I was interviewed by one of the application engineers. All of the technical questions were asked by the application engineer.
However, the questions were more about my resume and what I had worked and was familiar with more than questions testing my knowledge. A couple of days after the interview I received a phone call from the recruiter telling me they thought the interview went well, and decided to offer me the position!
Questions
What was one instance where you struggled with a project, and how did you overcome it?
What interests me? What would I want to work on during my time here?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Arm Applications Engineer role in Plano, Texas.
Success Rate
Arm's interview process for their Applications Engineer roles in Plano, Texas is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Arm's Applications Engineer interview process in Plano, Texas.
Arm Work Experiences
- 5.0Great company with career opportunitiesApplications Engineer • Current EmployeeCambridge, United KingdomOctober 10, 2018Pros: There is an opportunity to work with very smart people and learn about the latest technology. There is also good training and career development opportunities.Cons: Work/Life balance might be tricky in some positions although it may not be a problem if you enjoy what you are doing!
- 1.0Physical Design Group is an extremely poor groupApplications Engineer • Former EmployeeAustin, TexasOctober 20, 2021Pros: Lots of vacation days Sabbatical Above average but not an extremely good pay. But overall compensation is a good deal.Cons: If you see the previous negative reviews you can observe a pattern that dates back as far as 2014 talking about how terrible this group is. Although there is a cloud hanging over the company since the acquisitions, this group was and still is a bad group to work for. Extremely poor processes and tools. Very badly written software tools. Nobody knows how it works internally. There wasn't even a manual. Developers were not accessible at all. Shocking for a company like ARM. There was no technical guidance. It was just pep talks like jumping on tasks as quickly as you can. Because nobody knows (including very senior engineers) how the tools work and what will be the outcome. Cancel all your plans and hope that time left will be enough. Open cube conversations were borderline NSFW. No professionalism, personal comments were made. Highly opinionated echo chamber, better fall in line. If you want to stand up and complain, you will be spared in the current review cycle and properly done-in the next. There were a lot of manual tasks with no value to your career. You just sit around typing shell commands, parsing logs and manually verifying outcomes. Scripting tasks come by very rarely. That is the most intellectually stimulating task you will ever get. Other than that you get manual and repetitive tasks that leave you mentally fatigued and take you nowhere. Overall it looked like a made up position to cover up inefficiencies. Neither was it a software role position nor an application engineer role. Longer you stay, the more you make yourself unemployable. Why hire a masters candidate for this?
- 5.0Application engineerApplications Engineer • Current EmployeeCambridge, United KingdomFebruary 13, 2026Pros: Solid pay and laid back environmentCons: The process can be a bit bureaucratic.
