Networking business unit is a mixed bag - Software Engineer NVIDIA Employee Review

3.0
Oct 6, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Comp (salary, RSUs) is good, ESPP is solid, CEO is passionate and his vision is far-reaching, wide variety of technologies across the company to choose from.

Cons

Networking business unit is run incredibly top-down, stifling ideas, passion, constructive criticism, improvements and feedback from the boots on the ground. Difficult to manage up or extend influence in team/product direction. Metrics have become self-serving, existing only to provide upper management self-justification rather than actually tracking indicators of useful outcomes. BU-specific policies directly contradict CEO messaging regarding culture in company all-hands. NBU employees are required to work-from-office 3x/week and open reqs have been revoked for teams not meeting in-office attendance quota. PTO requests for >1 week require approval from 4 levels of NBU management. The "top priority" changes multiple times a week, making it difficult to effectively dedicate time/effort towards driving a task from start to finish.

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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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