Arm

• Great parental leave options
• Sabbatical (when I was hired)
• Stable business model
• Great integration efforts for new employees

PTO policy was reduced for US employees (used to be a lot better)- Software culture is severely lacking (and way behind)- Company grew too fast, and let too many bad managers inI worked at Arm years ago, when it was still a relatively small company, with a different CEO at the helm (Warren East). The company back then, is still the best place I've ever worked, causing me to return years later. The company as it is today is a faint echo of the company it was then, however, having lost much of its engineering culture and (frankly) its leadership backbone. People like Mike Muller and many of the Fellow engineers, kept the exec team honest and on the right track. Nowadays, Mike Muller is no longer managing the day-to-day, and many of the fellows and engineering leaders have moved on to greener pastures; in their place is a "Chief Strategy Officer" from BCG (the opposite of an engineering company), armed with buzzword-laden powerpoints, conveniently avoiding anything close to a SWOT analysis that the company's founders had intelligently started the company with. Arm's management is now more non-technical than it is technical, which is a problem for an engineering company, and causes a lot of unnecessary work and political games to occur.

Things can still be turned around, but the company needs to return to its roots. If it wants to pursue more of a software direction, it needs strong technical leadership with a strong BS filter. Managers should be re-evaluated regularly on their effectiveness and not just their marketing abilities.