Face-to-Face interview with a behavioural and technical aspect. Technical aspect has some written programming oriented questions like name some errors. There was also a coding part where they give you a laptop and leave you to it for 1.5 hours. You need to optimise the piece of code they give you.
CV screening, HireVue, then 2 hours of interviews. Got rejected after HireVue. You can take around 3 retries per HireVue questions, also contains a mini coding sample in the middle
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe in as much detail main functions of an OS
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arm (Cambridge, England) in Jan 2026
Interview
The interview process consisted of a Hireview followed by a video call interview with some engineers. Overall the process took around a month, and is done as fast as possible.
HireVue -> One remote interview. Remote was mostly about my experience, they did a technical deep dive into my project, and asked me different questions about how I would approach different scenarios technically.
Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Arm with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 Software Engineer(Internship) according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 28%
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 11%
Other: 11%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
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