Aug 10, 2019
NVIDIA reviews
4.6
94% would recommend to a friend
Jensen Huang
99% approve of CEO
95% positive business outlook
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4.0
Jul 26, 2019
Good place to work but know when to get out
Former employee, more than 8 years
Santa Clara, CA
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Pros
Compensation & Benefits: - Base salary gets competitive as you go up in your IC level. - ESPP has a 2 year lock in window. Not many companies in the industry have that. - 401K match is a fixed value which is good for people who plan to work for a shorter period. - Multiple choices to choose from your health benefits (depending on your requirements) and are very competitive. - Dinner is subsidized. Career: - If you are self motivated, you can learn a lot of stuff. - Teams are usually small (< 15 under a manager) so visibility to upper management and across teams is high. - There are opportunities to move within the company and is highly encouraged by our CEO. YMMV. - There are avenues for Learning & Development, but its mostly about Machine learning and AI. Immigration: - NVIDIA is very prompt with your immigration applications. There is no lead in period to apply for your H1B, Green Card or any other petitions. Work Culture: - Information about projects & products is available to all teams so there is a sense of satisfaction when you know what you are working on. - There are mailing groups & clubs for all things and you can openly ask for help, be it work related or not. - Flexible work hours as long as you complete the work within the agreed upon timeframe.
Cons
Compensation & Benefits: - Base salary for NCG or lower level ICs may not match that of bigger companies. - There is no profit sharing or cash bonuses. - RSU grant is once a year and is not very competitive unless the stock price goes up on its own. - There are no free lunches, not since 2009. Career: - Not a lot of opportunities for Career growth. - Since teams are small, there is no time for anyone to mentor younger employees. - If you are not self motivated, it's very difficult to learn/do new things. - Intra team transfer needs your current manager's approval. - Review/Appraisal process is not very transparent. There are no written reviews by the manager. - There is no clear goal on what you need to do to get promoted.
4.0
Jul 8, 2019
Strong leadership, challenging but rewarding work
Current employee, more than 10 years
Santa Clara, CA
Recommend
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Pros
Very strong, charismatic, and trusted CEO leadership. The mid-level engineering managers are either still active or used to be talented technical contributors, so they are usually trustworthy in terms of making good decisions. For such a large company now, things still seem to move pretty quickly. There is heavy emphasis on execution here, so people are conscious about minimizing the overhead. Again, the emphasis on execution allows the company to invest quite a lot into its internal workflow and methodology. Very open environment encourages managers and new employees alike to engaging in technical discussions. Competitive compensation. The company seems to be focusing more towards family-friendly employee benefits, which seems to be growing in popularity. The importance of the work is obvious to most people, without the execs having to hammer such notions obnoxiously.
Cons
The department directors seem to be throwing around catchy/buzzworthy phrases from Harvard Business Reviews, without providing mid-level managers sufficient guidance on how to address them. I felt that this lack of guidance turns such business school memes into sources of management anxiety, which eventually trickle down as stress to engineers. Some individual contributors agree that the managers are too busy and bit "out of touch" with the happenings in the latest projects. The management career path does not seem very appealing, since the individual contributors constantly witness their managers having to deal with weird crap all the time. Heavy emphasis on execution often pushes many engineers into shortsightedness. You either get criticized here for not delivering on time, or being "too shortsighted." Weird product/marketing naming schemes aren't always understood by the engineers. They are typically considerate to send someone from the marketing to explain. That is very nice, but it's still not clear whether such minutia is understood by our customers. The work culture is bit chaotic, and challenges people to adapt to new environment. Those who insist on sticking to their work process at their previous job don't fare very well.
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