Arm

Arm is a good place to work until a few years ago. Not anymore. Work life balance is good.

After the Softbank acquisition, only CPU derivative products being done here. Work is very monotonous. No challenging projects.

To top it, most of the senior management in the CPU teams in Bangalore is filled with non-technical folks, who don't understand things in the projects, but who understand only 'resources' and 'milestones'. Everything else is noise to them.

Whoever talks more in meetings, seems to moves up the ladder fast. This has caused Arm to loose many good technical folks, which in-turn has increased the burden on us. Teams are genrally short staffed, so when this is raised, the management folks in turn start questioning our ability instead. This sets very negative environoment, which has caused rise in attrition. Management only want 'Yes Boss' people who will blindly execute and not smart tech guys who can identify and solve challenges.

Very monotonous work. Promotions seem to be unfair also, as seen in the recent past.

Get good technical people who understand our work into the top.

Non-technical managers demotivate us.