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Engineering driven hard, with poor communications prevalent in many areas

Staff Verification Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Arm for less than 1 year
December 14, 2011
Cambridge, United Kingdom
3.0
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Pros

They provide good flexible working when needed. They give a one-off 4 week 'sabbatical' lump of extra vacation time for every four years of service.

If you are driven enough and have the correct people skills to fit the company, you can affect change or carve out your own roles to some extent.

Cons

Marketing driven, with input from a select few. Bulk of engineering team can be treated like children by marketing

"Do what you are told and don't ask questions you don't know anything about."

Often runs with minimal resource on projects. People's roles are weakly defined so you can get good and bad projects depending on your co-workers.

Advice to Management

Drive better role definitions, communication, and soft skill development at all levels, not just upper management. Analyse product development flows to make sure we are answering the right questions early enough to prevent inefficiencies later.

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