Hardware Engineering Intern Review

Item: Hardware Engineering Intern at Arm
Rating: 3.8
Author: Anonymous

at Arm

Internship (1 Month+)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Cambridge

Review Submitted: August 2025

Overall Rating

3.8 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

3/5 - Overview of Role

3.5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

3/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Worked in the Data Engineering Platform (DEP) team and was given a task to complete.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Not a lot. Assigned minor tasks

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Yes. I learned the scala programming language, web APIs and cloud based computing

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

3/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

3/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

A lot. My manager was available whenever I needed help and the rest of the team freely volunteered time to help me.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

5/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Great working environment. The company promotes wellbeing and provides many resources to help employees with this.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

3/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

4/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

The work itself was different to my degree and somewhat trivial like the nature of most internships. The company culture was excellent and intern program is well organised. I enjoyed all parts of my intership apart from the content of the work.

Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

3/5

Please rate how your experience met your expectations

3/5

Recommendations & Advice

Would you recommend Arm to a friend?

Yes

What advice would you give to others applying to Arm

Follow up after rejections. Ask for feedback and to be recommended other job opportunities. Make contacts there and make use of people having more experience than you.