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      Open Source Software Developer Interview

      19 May 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Negative experience

      Other Open Source Software Developer interview reviews for Arm

      Open Source Software Engineer Interview

      21 Dec 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cambridge, England
      No offer
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Arm in Jan 2023

      Interview

      This is rather a review of a complete experience (company, recruiting process, etc.) rather than the interview itself. 1. The job application portal is almost unusable (ICIMS): - No proper application tracking - No job description (this gets exceptionally problematic when you have multiple job applications titled the same way, think "Software Engineer") - No Job ID search - horrible combination with the previous point 2. The recruiting team added a random person - outside of the Arm company - to the technical interview, mistaking them for an Arm employee with similar name/surname. Formally, this is a data transfer to an unauthorized 3rdparty. The situation got resolved when I explicitly noticed (in an email) that the wrong person had been added. 3. Almost impossible to reach the recruiting team: either the email system is broken or the recruiting team is understaffed so much that they could not reply to emails. Ever. 4. The job description did not state much and it turned out that the position I applied for is completely outside of my domain of expertise: fairly different tech stack, fairly different R&D topics. 5. After two technical interview rounds, nothing happened for a month (I think literally a month). At this point any reasonable person would consider the interviews failed and get on with life. Turned out - after another phone call from a recruiter, and after an extra week of silence - I have passed the technical interviews and the company was ready to give me an offer. 6. When speaking with the hiring manager, which is an optional, candidate-requested call (my understanding) - that *only* happened because I wasn't sure about multiple things (see 4) - turned out that the technological stack was actually relevant and the R&D topics were interesting. Without this part of the interview process, my picture of the job was *utterly* different.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Generally a "C developer" interview for a "C++ developer" position: - questions around key concepts of programming, computer memory, systems programming - interesting, concise during-the-interview programming assignments
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      Arm response
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      I’m really sorry to hear you had a negative interview experience with us. We speak with thousands of people a year and the vast majority have a good experience interviewing with Arm. Please contact me on glassdoorfeedback@arm.com so we can talk about your experience and learn from what happened.
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England) in Dec 2020

      Interview

      I applied for the job online, First HR interview was held. Then after 2+ week, Technical interview. It last around 2 hours. During the interview, I tried to answer all questions and I think I believe that I answer most of them. Even though, for the architectural related or low level questions, I tried to answer in more detail without being asked(draw, diagrams, etc.) Generally, interview was good, but questions were varity (os, architecture, low level programming, peripherals etc.) As a Junior, I tried to explain all the questions(even though some of them in more detail). Interviewers were kind. After 3 days later, I had a telephone call that I've been told that I was rejected. In the end, ARM should've taken into account my eagerness for learning new things(I believe this is quite important) as much as the other stuffs.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Cache, Virtual Memory, OS related questions, Memory Management, Arm Architecture, Data structures, bitwise operations, interrupts, peripherals.
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