Pros: Not as much bureaucracy when it comes to technical documents and access to information. There's not as much questioning of "what's business need to know" when looking for information. On-boarding orientation process includes a "Big picture" event where they try to convey the big picture of ARM's business and how it works. Free flavored sparkling water (La Croix), coffee, tea provided. No free soda (might be a con) though which may increase personal health. Choice of MacBook or ThinkPad. Covered garage parking provided. Ping pong table, foosball table in breakroom. Many employees get a chance to travel to Cambridge for business. Opportunities to attend 1 or 2 technical conferences for free. There are many internal ARM conferences that people may attend. Most are located in Cambridge, UK.

Cons: IT department is not staffed well. You can submit a ticket for a problem you're having, but it's not guaranteed that you'll get your problem fixed. Oftentimes, you need to fix things yourself. There are minimal office amenities at the Chandler office site. There is no gym or shower facilities.

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

Pros: A lot of valuable people to learn from Interesting work

Cons: Unhealthy internal competition Unfairness No focus on individual people Constant changes in how things are done, often for worse