NVIDIA Reviews

Former Employee – worked at NVIDIA

Pros – really smart people and driven company culture.

Cons – they move you around projects too much. so there is never a slack period and burn out is easy.

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA

Pros – Great working environment with great people

Cons – Benefits are not as attractive as other companies

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA full-time for less than a year

Pros – Flexible working environment and average salary. Good relocation package.

Cons – Job is not very interesting and exciting. Semiconductor business is not so promising.

Advice to Senior Management – No idea about this.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Project management is sane. Schedules are aggressive but generally achievable. When not, PM makes sane adjustments to requirements or schedule.
Remote sites frequently allow employees to work from home. Mitigates high presence expectation.
Company is been on a slow but steady growth pattern for years. Tends to succeed in most pursuits, though never unboundedly. Decent future prospects, but don't expect to get rich.

Cons – Methodology is too centralized, too "push-button" and too broken. Huge and written in non-scaling languages (i.e. tcl, Make). Design engineers not allowed at vendor AEs. Targets NCGs. Hence, experienced engineers are poorly utilized, not respected and not invested in.
Global projects with high internal competition -> effective 24/7 response expectation. Not good for, say, sleep or life. Lots of lip service to balance and lots of "listening", but the realities are fixed. Part of the job.
Still a lot of site-tribalism -> less solution sharing -> lost efficiency.

Advice to Senior Management – Dramatically thin the PnR methodology layer. Let the EDA vendors support the engineers. They have invested more in their user support network than nVidia can afford to duplicate.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at NVIDIA full-time

Pros – - very flexible work environment.
- No micromanagement
- high priority and challenging work to newcomers
- team members are very helpful and almost no politics

Cons – - Not much documentation.
- organization is very flat (only 3 levels to CEO from an entry level engineer),so can't expect much of growth

Advice to Senior Management – - take more care about employee growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA full-time for less than a year

Pros – Yes, you don't have to worry about no tasks. Everyday there is a huge amount of tasks waiting for you. If you want to really take efforts learn and dig into something, this will benefit you a lot. There's many senior engineers in NVIDIA, from who you can definitely learn a lot.

Cons – NVIDIA is a world-famous company, however it is not as cool as it sounds working here ---- I'm comparing it with some companies with equivalent reputation in industry. Base salary and bonus are lower than many Bay Area companies. Benefits are not attractive. Working environment is not so good: only drinking water is free! I cannot comment on the overall management, but my manager is definitely doing too much micro-management. If you are only attracted by it's "fame", be careful on your offer choice. You definitely have a lot of better choices around Bay Area. Just look on glassdoor and find companies rated higher than it! This really helps!

Advice to Senior Management – No advice. Semiconductor industry is saturated. With no profit a company will get nothing. Management is only one of them. Good managers will go to Apple or Facebook for sure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA full-time for less than a year

Pros – When I saw some of the negative reviews on Glassdoor about NVIDIA, I was nervous about whether my experience would be similar to those ones. Having worked at NVIDIA for nearly a year, though, I can say that my experience has been anything but negative. I absolutely love my job here -- I wake up excited each day to come to work. My work life balance is great -- when I'm at work, I work hard, but I then leave my work at the office and don't think about it when I'm at home.The work itself is challenging, but I have found that this helps to motivate me all the more. I have never had any trouble getting help from my co-workers, and in fact, I've found that most will bend over backwards to help someone else when they need it. I've found that most of the individuals I've worked with have been exceptionally smart and I've learned a lot from them, but at the same time, I've found that I have been able to offer a lot back to the group and it's a great feeling to feel that my relationships have been a two-way street. It's also been awesome to work at the cutting edge of technology and to see the innovations the company is developing.

I'm continually impressed with NVIDIA and I feel I've made the right choice in coming here.

Cons – The main form of communication at NVIDIA is email, and accordingly, you'll get tons of it. Effective filters/rules help to manage the deluge.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Talented people, great products, exciting industry

Cons – Moves slowly, at-times abrasive "intellectual honesty" culture

Advice to Senior Management – Allow the people you've hired to do their jobs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at NVIDIA full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, location, and work environment. People worked very well with spatially diverse teams.

Cons – I have some mixed feelings being an engineer in a smaller satellite office.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at NVIDIA

Pros – Flexible work hours, and nice adviser. Plus free dinner.

Cons – Salary is not very satisfying. And the work load is a little bit heavy.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase salary if possible.