NVIDIA Reviews

Pros

very good flow to support our work, show its leadership, all employee feel like home, have opportunity to take class in standford.

Cons

workload is high, sometimes you must work 7x12 hour to meet schedule
the flow is too complete to let a junior engineer to do some fundamental work.

Advice to Senior Management

Jen-Hsun lead a very good way to mobile market, it's a very good opportunity for NVIDIA. We can make it.

Pros

Great colleagues, at least in my group! Always pushing for improvement.

Cons

Operates in a very competitive market segments and things can change very quickly!

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on hiring the best and maintain the diversity!

Pros

It's fun to work with smart people. NVIDIA hires very smart people.

Cons

The number of last minute changes to projects can be very frustrating. The same flexible attitude that made us successful is now causing us problems & frustrations.

Advice to Senior Management

We cannot continue to run the company as a small company. NVIDIA has grown and we must change our thinking in a way that will scale well as we grow.

Pros

Will get to work with all latest technologies and advanced computing
Good people to work with

Cons

No stable management structure. most of the managers are people who have no clu about the kinda of technology the are working with and its extent. Will end up doing a lot og unwanted extra work because some managers cant understand the communications from HQ .
The higher management is perfectly fine and they have good idea about how they want to mold the company, but the managers here are not in par with them

Advice to Senior Management

Management have to get training on managing people and recourse's

Pros

Got to start coding right away, great work culture, had a lot of intern activities

Cons

code not documented too well

Pros

Easy to transfer from a team to anther one. Business/technical information is relatively open and available if you know where to look and have time to figure it out. Chances to learn some technologies that may help you land next job.

Cons

Flexible hours -- Some BUs are more demanding. If you are in these BUs, you have the flexibility of choosing which 10~12 hours to work in a weekday.
Pay -- For many employees their raises during the past a few years are far less than inflation.
Benefits -- No accrued vacation days. Vacation approval is used as a bargaining chip by the first line manager.

Advice to Senior Management

Be real about your goals...

Pros

Fast paced. Up-to-date with cutting edge technology

Cons

Poor work-personal life balance.
No 401K matching.
Poor employee development options, as training opportunities are curtailed in the name of "cost cutting".
Favoritism is rampant - Dumb people with a salesman tongue, who regularly have lunch with their managers hog the limelight when it comes to pay hikes.
Power hungry managers have utter disdain for the capabilities of other teams.
Politics has taken control over what used to be a creative, motivating and fast-paced environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should give due recognition to talented and hard working individuals, and not just the smooth talking ones.
Give due importance to employee benefits such as 401k matching, if the company isn't able to keep up with the pay hikes.
I agree that community giving is important, but importance should also be given to hard working employees who are severely underpaid. It's discouraging if millions are being handed out in the name of the Company while the common employee has a hard time keeping up with the inflation.

Pros

Products are exciting and feel proud to be part of.
Colleagues with good knowledge and attitude to share/help when needed.
Lot of community work effort that could be participated in.

Cons

Long hours, too many emails and meetings are discouraging.
Less Compensations and are not upto industry standards.
No bonuses,No profit sharing, No 401K.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensate employees according to efforts they are putting in. Motivate employees to gain more knowledge and advance careers. Set clear goals.

Pros

I was able to meet a lot of people of various ages from various places around the world with different technical background.

Cons

I find that at times it can be very stressful not only because of tight deadlines but because of the atmosphere in general are quite competitive.

Advice to Senior Management

I would suggest there be more social events held at the company of various different types, such as BBQ, seminars, dance parties, so that every can get to know each other and feel less isolated and more relaxed.

Pros

Chance to learn about cutting edge technology
Exposure to games/graphics industry
Work Life balance
Friendly colleagues with few politics
CEO always share new ideas and company strategies

Cons

Weak Middle Management, Manager don't even fight for promotion or recruitment.
Bad place to start off your career, have to learn things yourself, not much guidance involved.
High learning curve
Company fire people or choose not to hire people if they change business strategy

Advice to Senior Management

Manager, do some justice to your people who work hard, at least fight for them for promotion and recruitment. Not just listening to top management on their firm and rigid restrictions