Brilliant minds led by unruly management - Anonymous employee NVIDIA Employee Review

2.0
Apr 20, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

NVIDIA hires some of the most knowledgeable engineers in the industry. It's rare to come across someone incompetent at an "individual contributor" level.

Cons

Do a thorough background check on the team that you join. Some groups are meticulous and organized, while others harbor a "start up" mentality where management rules with an iron fist. The "start up" group needs a fair bit of cleanup. * People throw you under the bus at a moment's notice. Be wary when dealing with overseas teams. * Forget flexible timings and be ready to work long hours and weekends. Personal commitments have to take a back seat in favor of old school management philosophy. * PTO policy is a joke. The number of PTO days are solely based on a consensus between you and your manager. If you both are in sync, your'e in luck. Otherwise, it's near impossible to get proper vacation. * Projects are started by someone's whim and fancy, and get shelved at a moments notice. Why isn't this considered a waste of resources and money? * Most projects are unnecessarily portrayed as high-priority, to make employees work weekends. A classic case of the boy who cried wolf. * It's always good to get management promises in writing. Some people can be very "forgetful". * With many groups, brown nosers and people with salesman tongue are encouraged. If you happen to be a sincere, diligent worker ... prepare to be sidelined. * Negotiate on a good salary upfront, as your pay hikes will be minimal unless you are management's "yes boy". * Management needs to be given "WebEx" lessons. Why do people always have to be in meeting rooms if they can give the same presentation over WebEx. Talk about a hi-tech company management with old school ideals.

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Pros

Management is competent and actually cares about employee welfare. Jensen is the least sociopathic CEO I've ever worked under. The work has been interesting and I was actually allowed to do things right, and not just "right now".

Cons

The company is 3X the size it was when I joined, with all the usual problems of massive growth. And of course the AI hype at Nvidia is intense.

5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

NVIDIA's PTO and Sick policies are compassionate and generous. Managers listen to employees' ideas. Employees get to work on a wider variety of projects than expected, and usually work closely with other teams to get things done. Collaboration is tight almost all of the time.

Cons

Employees don't always get insight into why they were assigned a particular project, or have much if any choice about what projects they get to work on. Managers are often too busy working on projects themselves to have the free time to meet with employees on a regular basis. This leads to short-term, reactive thinking rather than long-term visionary thinking.

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