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Staff Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Arm for 9 years
November 2, 2012
Cambridge, United Kingdom
4.0
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Pros
  • Work with some very clever, interesting and nice people.
  • Lots of opportunities to do really interesting work.
  • Plenty of freedom/leeway to define own job role and organise how you get on and do the work.
  • Normally a relaxed working atmosphere
  • Growth opportunities if in right division.
  • Shares.
  • Month sabbatical
  • Private health care.
  • Some good social events.
  • They do try to look after their staff.
Cons

Mostly growth pains ...

  • Under investment in IT and Engineering IT and a lack of thought in these areas can (on occasion) make it a very frustrating place to try to do engineering.
  • Lack of growth in some divisions.
  • Working environment in quite a few places tatty and ill suited to purpose.
Advice to Management
  1. Spend more of that war chest on engineering IT infrastructure - there's a fine line between achieving forced efficiency and squandering engineering productivity having engineers cope with poor tools and infrastructure, you're slightly on the wrong side of it and have been for a while.

  2. You have clever people working for you, be a bit more adventurous about encouraging them to develop growth opportunities outside of core business from inside.

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