Not an employee oriented Company.... - Senior Hardware Engineer NVIDIA Employee Review

2.0
Jul 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Talented People and cutting edge work. Keeps you busy. Good health plan. 2 Year lock for Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Free Dinner.

Cons

Unfriendly work environment. Although people are talented, there is too much of attitude. Too many emails and people do not like in-person interaction. Lack of work and life balance. Poor Project schedule planning. Always the schedule slips more than a year. There is no growth for Individual contributors. There is no compensation based on performance. No bonus and they do not give good no. of RSUs any more. Its pretty much your base salary. No 401K matching. There is no Paid Time Off. They call it, Professional Time Off which means you talk to your manage and get as much as vacation. Who in the world allows you to take a long vacation. When ever you ask your manager, he/she says, we can't give you more than two weeks due to schedule. Lots of dis-satisfied employees that's reducing the people efficiency. There lots of people leaving the company and the management is not putting much effort in stopping that. Managers do not care about their employees. Employees are frequently moved to different managers in a short time. Sometime that really affects the reviews. Overall its not a employee oriented company.

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5.0
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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.

5.0
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Pros

The product security organization has a very ideal work-life balance. The culture is strong on ownership and trust. There is a good sense of pride and collaboration across teams with low level of politics and high sense of "the project is the boss". Compensation is good for the roles. Merit increases and promotions are mostly transparent, but can vary from manager to manager.

Cons

Leadership direction can be whiplash at some times. Some initiatives feel directionless, while others feel misguided. Leadership does respond to push back and listens to employees though, but it often feels like managing up.

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