Arm·Software Engineer

Arm Software Engineer interview experience

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San Diego, CAPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt very technical from the start.

After the recruiter stage, I ended up in a one-hour technical interview that mixed coding and systems-level questions with behavioral prompts layered in. A big theme was Python and software structure—object-oriented Python came up, and I had to work through coding questions while thinking out loud about the approach.

What surprised me was how much they tied software work back to lower-level performance. I was asked about computer architecture, and I also got into RTL-style design territory. I remember being given scenarios and workloads and then asked how I would optimize performance, which

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