I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England) in Nov 2017
Interview
Very basic with subject knowledge. Programming skills. Analytics skills. Problem solving. Real case scenario to solve using coding and debugging.
HR round focus on explaining their business and you telling how you will fit.
I applied online. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England)
Interview
The interview was as expected, friendly and polite, got to know the requirements but also expressed my capabilities in detail and discussed my experience in the field. Just your average experience
Process is simple, be true to yourself and should be good for embedded programming. You should be well aware of architecture and basic data structure questions. There were 3 rounds and each round had 2 panelists.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Write a c API to take 2 generic data as arg and compare it
2. Advantages of MMU.
3. Count number of nodes in link list without traversing each node
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Arm (Bangalore Rural) in Apr 2023
Interview
1st telephonic : more about ur work and how relevent it is to the work they do
3tech : all tech question like how OOO works, how branch misprediction is handled in OOO,
then explain paging who VA-PA translation happens what all cases hardware take care of TLB invalidation and when does user need to do
1HR : salary discussion
its bit slow process but one thing which was good is once ur tech round it done and if its positive u will get results really quick thats in day or max 2
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
misprediction is handled in OOO,
then explain paging who VA-PA translation happens what all cases hardware take care of TLB invalidation and when does user need to do
1 HR: on salary and expectation
Staff Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Arm with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff Engineer roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arm overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Arm as a Staff Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 21%
Phone interview: 21%
Personality test: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
One on one interview: 7%
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