NVIDIA Reviews

Pros

NVIDIA hires a lot of hard workers with drive to push the limits of high performance and quality in its products.

Cons

NVIDIA tends to hire a lot of young talented, but inexperienced engineers. Sometimes it doesn't work out. The ones who stay longer than a year usually end up being successful for many years.

Advice to Senior Management

Try organizing employees in tighter product teams, rather than pool resources that act as service groups. Different groups should have appropriate bonuses based on the success of their group, rather than the performance of the whole company.

Pros

Good Place to work for 3-4 years. Nice compensation.

Cons

Stagnant growth after a point need more projects to offshore sights

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the innovative work!!

Pros

Flexibility and work from home. Lots of resouses and smart people top help you learn and grow. Lot of friendly people

Cons

too stagnant i felt. work is redundant, I am a hardware guy so I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought i would

Advice to Senior Management

Doing a good job at the present but some training excersises would help the employee catch up faster to the current project

Pros

-Salary is at par when compared with Intel, Quallcom etc, getting 2.5x the experience
-Work is good, only thing is that nvidia has a lean team and a startup kind of atmosphere unlike Quallcom, Intel etc so we end up doing different kind of works codecs, drivers, power etc all done by same team this doesn't help you to devlop expertise in any one niche area
-Its truly a pay for performance company

Cons

-Carreer growth hierarchy wise is a real issue. Nvidia has peole with 10+ yrs of experience and still as Senior Engg they may be payed well but its difficult for somebody who wants a manegerial role

Pros

cutting edge technologies, many career opportunities, motivated co-workers, a lot to learn as individual contributor, freedom to pursue solutions without being controlled.

Cons

lack of training to new hires, no design reviews, lack of software ownership, bug fixing mentality used for software design.

Advice to Senior Management

share your vision, listen to employees, offer training to managers, pay attention to patents and innovation; does it make sense for a senior manager to have 20+ direct reports?

Pros

Good & Smart people/Engineer/Managers everywhere
Leading edge technology, and great products
Flexible working hour
Project oriented
Better than average salary

Cons

No 401K, No gym in any building in SC
Too many emails everyday
Not enough meeting rooms, hard to book one during normal working hour

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the good work, spend time to listen or work with your employees.
Finalize the POR and changes at the early design stage, do not change too many times.

Pros

Work with a bunch of great engineers;
Enjoy a good balanced work and life;
Learn about leading technology of the industry.

Cons

Lack of non-work-related group activities;

Advice to Senior Management

Employees need more chances to not only work together, but play and enjoy life together.

Pros

Technology, best video cards in the markert.

Cons

There are people who's ego gets on the way of fainess.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Learn useful tech as software engineer.
Flexible working time.
Good environment.
Nice manager

Cons

Compared to the new wave of web company in China(Baidu, Sina, Tencent...), salary are not so competitive. And in most time, Chinese are doing same jobs as the colleague in US and Euro, but earned only about 1/3 salaries.

Pros

Exciting technical opportunities for ic designers. Santa Clara has great weather. Very capable mid level managers. Great respect for ic designers.

Cons

Lack of respect for anyone not designing ics. Many benefits are geared to maximize benefit to executives. Low pay for the field and location.

Advice to Senior Management

We are no longer a startup. Stop losing business by smart mouthing our customers. Benefits need to be a benefit to the average younger employee, not just the older e-staff.