Graduate Software Engineer Review
at Arm
Graduate Job
Software Engineering
Manchester
Review Submitted: October 2025
Overall Rating
4.7 /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!
5/5
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Overview of the Role
4.4/5
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Experience & Company Culture
5/5
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Recommendations & Advice
Overview of the Role
Overall, how would you describe your experience at Arm?
Arm is a fantastic place to work; not only are you working on meaningful projects that have a measurable, positive impact on the industry, but the people here are generally really friendly and knowledgeable. Arm emphasises inclusivity an supporting everyone, so it's a really welcoming environment.
What are the main responsibilities of the role and which elements of the role do you enjoy the most?
The general summary is working on compilers and low-level libraries to improve support and code generation for AArch64. Within that, including my time as a PTUG during university, I've worked on the Cranelift WebAssembly compiler to improve their interpreter and add support for new instructions; Arm RAN Acceleration Library to improve the instruction sequences used in (de-)modulation of radio signals at LTE cell towers; libamath to improve the performant transcendental maths operations used by, for example, GCC; Rust, to further the language's support for AArch64's features; and likewise for LLVM.
Each rotation has been fantastic in its own right, and each has provided a wealth of knowledge and greater understanding of compilers and the Arm architecture.
Each rotation has been fantastic in its own right, and each has provided a wealth of knowledge and greater understanding of compilers and the Arm architecture.
To what extent does your role give you the opportunity to contribute meaningfully and feel valued by your team?
5/5
The work you do as a graduate is genuine contribution to a wider ecosystem, so your contributions are objectively meaningful; most teams in Arm are also quite supportive and compassionate.
How does your compensation package - including perks & benefits - fairly remunerate you for the work you do?
5/5
The salary is actually competitive and fairly decent, and combined with benefits like private medical insurance, life assurance, and travel insurance, it does make quite a lot of everyday living a little less burdensome.
How well do you feel the role is preparing you for your future career?
5/5
How would you rate the extent to which you were developing new or existing skills through formal training and your day-to-day role?
5/5
Experience & Company Culture
How is the support you receive?
5/5
How is your work-life balance?
5/5
The culture is one of maintaining your work-life balance, such that people are discouraged from overworking and such; however, the specific times you work are quite flexible, allowing for moving time around during the week to accommodate any other commitments you have.
What is the organisational culture, values and general atmosphere like?
4/5
Arm's really positive and generally quite inclusive, though we do have a hybrid working policy applying to most employees (with a minimum attendance amount of 40% per month for engineers); I think this is currently a reasonable balance.
How would you rate Arm initiatives when it comes to equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility?
4/5
We have a range of ERGs to collectively support underrepresented colleagues, such as Neurodiversity@Arm, which put on events to help improve understanding and support for colleagues in those ERGs.
How would you rate Arm CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives?
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Arm to a friend?
Yes
Why?
I really enjoy working here, and think as far as companies go, Arm is by far one of the best places to work; I have absolutely recommended Arm to a few friends in the past.
How well did the role match your expectations based on the recruitment process?
5/5
When considering the recruitment & onboarding process, have you any specific tips or advice you would give to others applying to Arm?
Try not to stress too much about it! But, at the very least, if you're looking to work in an engineering role then understanding CPU pipelining can help a lot. In any case, go into any interviews with an openness to learn and ask questions -- which is very much the culture here.
