Arm

Competitive salary. In fact, most Loughborough employees get Cambridge's salary which is much higher than average in Leicestershire. Some members of the local management and hardware engineering teams have doubled salaries (over £100k) after ARM's acquisition of Apical.

Quite unique products. At least three product lines are developed in Loughborough so it makes it worth for the hardware engineers of joining this company.

Local management structure is toxic:

• Technical decisions are made to increase managers prestige regardless to the consequences for a product.
• Therefore, it is not appreciated to argue with the management decisions.
• Chronic internal problems within a team are constantly ignored.
• Management team never admits their failures.

Software developers are second-class sitizens. This is easy to explain as ARM is a hardware company which revenue depends on success of their hardware IPs.

Apical (ARM in Loughborough) is a settled company, so I don't expect for things to improve drastically.

I would recommend to replace previous Apical's management.