Intern Review

Item: Intern at Arm
Rating: 4.8
Author: Anonymous

at Arm

Internship (1 Month+)

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science, Software Engineering

Manchester

Review Submitted: August 2026

Overall Rating

4.8 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

I look at optimising software frameworks and machine learning models to perform better on Arm hardware. This involves investigatory work, benchmarking, bug fixing and developing.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, I was given real work to complete that was assigned to the team.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

4/5

Skills Development

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

Yes, I've learned a lot about working with and contributing to large projects, DevOps, CI/CD, build processes, compilers and many different libraries and machine learning concepts as a whole, it has been very beneficial.

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?

5/5

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

5/5

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

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

Any questions I had were answered and there were lots of experienced engineers on the team that I felt comfortable asking questions to. There was guidance about my work but also freedom to complete it how I likedm

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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Wonderful, it's a very nice place to work and they put a large emphasis on personal wellbeing. Not buring out and enjoying the work you do. There are lots o measures in place to make the environment a nice one to work in and it is.