Arm

• Good work life balance.
• Four weeks of sabbatical every four years.
• Decent stock grant every year.
• Chance to work on the latest ARM technology.

Salary is significantly lower than other semiconductor companies.* Work is related to validation. There is no design or development work.* Bangalore is a remote center so your work can be taken away by folks in Cambridge at any point no matter how well you do it.* The environment for engineers is steadily deteriorating. The last few years have seen the emergence of a new culture which places more emphasis on presentations and talking rather than real engineering work. As a result, honest hard-working engineers are being sidelined and loud mouths who don't hesitate to take credit for others work are being promoted. I guess it is the result of conducting too many leadership courses at five star hotels. A lot of good engineers are leaving the company due to this but the management is least bothered because they believe engineers can be easily replaced. That might be true but good engineers cannot be easily replaced. The hiring standards are declining and the quality of new hires is pathetic.

Start respecting engineers who do real work instead of ones who just create PPTs.