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Staff Engineer Grade V
Former Employee
Worked at Arm for less than 1 year
April 7, 2011
Austin, Texas
4.0
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Pros

Benefits: 5 weeks vacation plus the option to buy an additional week, sabbatical, RSUs, bonus, full match plus immediate vesting in the 401K.

Casual work environment

Market leader

Talented co-workers

Cons

The Austin design center is relatively small, although growing.

That limits the possibilities for career growth and professional development.

There just isn't much need for technical leads when a design center only has 1 or 1.5 projects going on at a time.

The "cutoff" for design and implementation engineers is grade 6, the cutoff for verification engineers is 5.

This discrepancy between teams is something to keep in mind if you are looking for a verification position in Austin.

I can't speak to design centers in other areas of the world.

Advice to Management

Either fix the career path discrepancy between DV and other engineering teams, or get used to turnover.

Otherwise, keep up the good work Go ARM!

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