Arm·Software Engineer

Arm Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United KingdomPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I spent a long time applying without ever really getting to talk to anyone.

After more than a year of applying to around 25 positions at different experience levels, I never made it past the initial filtering step, even though I had close to two decades of software engineering experience.

The biggest problem was that the initial CV screening felt like it was keyword-only, and it seemed to ignore the actual depth of my background. I either got an automatic rejection within 24 hours or my application stayed in “under review” indefinitely. Since I never reached a real interview stage, there wasn’t a technical challenge to judge—just the sense that the process wasn’t

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