NVIDIA – “Glitzy place to the outsider, coal mine to the insider.”

Pros

Leading edge technology.
Lots of very smart engineers, no office politics to speak of.
Good salary compensation. Gave out good stock options in the past.
Flexible work hours, feel free to work as much as you can.

Cons

nVidia excels at hiring the best and brightest engineers, put them in mind-numbing, dull,
repetitive jobs.

You'll become obsolete in the job market after a few years at nvidia because you get too
 used to all the internal tools that you forget how to use industry standard tools.

Some bright engineers get promoted to become not so good managers, and ultimately
lousy middle management.

Very little interaction with co-workers outside of work, everyone works long hours, then
hurries home, just to come back eight hours later to repeat the cycle.

Coworkers who quit, get laid off, or fired, simply disappear with as little fanfare as with the new
employees who come in to take their places.

Advice to Senior Management

You motivate employees either by 1) pour money on them, or 2) treat them well. nVidia used to
do 1), but is now doing neither. Will what happens be difficult to predict?