NVIDIA reviews

4.6

94% would recommend to a friend

(3,916 total reviews)
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Jensen Huang

99% approve of CEO

95% positive business outlook

NVIDIA has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,916 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The NVIDIA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Oct 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I have bled green - worked for NVIDIA longer than anywhere and I've been around a long time. I've seen it grow from tiny to huge. The growth was phenomenal until 2008 or so. There are some great and very smart people here. Products are good quality. Mistakes are used to learn from. There is a very distinct culture here. Work hard and well, work hard. Relatively flat organization. Politics exist but I always felt like I could pretty much talk to anyone in the organization at any time to get things done.

Cons

Business-wise - CEO bet the farm and lost (too late) on a lot of recent products. Trying to pick up the pieces now. Problem is, because of the previous success in PC-business, they think they can replicate that success but revenue has been stagnant (+/- within $4B/year) for the last 5 years or so. Gross margins are high - probably because they are so cheap on spending. I have had the pleasure of having fantastic bosses for the first phase of my career there and absolutely awful bosses more recently (unfortunately, they think they are good). Culture in my group involves yelling occasionally. This was precipitated in the early days by the CEO and seems to be the norm and accepted. On the one hand, when its yelling at the situation I can take it. When its yelling at me for no good reason other than lack of tact, its time to consider my options elsewhere. I used to work hard and feel good about it as the stock was going up and it made sense. I could see my impact to the company. I used to pride myself as not being a cog in the machine like at some other companies where you are a nameless engineer just doing your job. I really felt like I made a difference. Unfortunately, this is no longer true for me and I think for a lot of others. People used to stay long and work hard and feel good about it. Now I think there is resentment (for those that work long) and others just pretty much work and go home.

2.0
Sep 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good financial compensation. Good perks on campus including a well managed cafeteria and daily amenities such as dental care, car repair, bicycle maintenance and haircuts. It's not free but makes it easy to get certain regular tasks done without disrupting your day. High stress, fast paced environment will mold you into a rock star at your next company.

Cons

Offices are outdated, employees work on sub-standard computers and almost everything about the company's spending habits indicates that it's not just frugal but cheap. Departments are universally understaffed and overworked so expect to work overtime. Environment drives away talent and encourages success to leave to find better working conditions. Executive management is out of touch with reality in general. All employees likely to suffer from direct micro-management by the CEO sooner or later. Worst part about NVIDIA is that the CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is wildly insecure, a slave to his own volatile emotions and universally abusive of his staff. He is prone to yelling and name calling in meetings and will personally lead witch hunts that are made worse by the universal desire of senior management to distract him from their own political in-fighting. He will publicly demean others and has made it impossible to form a larger, cohesive team within the company. The internal reputation of Jensen (as he is referred to within the industry) is very poor and while he is well respected for his intellectual capacity he is also feared and loathed for his mean-spirited, personal attacks and for being completely unapproachable.

1.0
Sep 23, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

none i can think of. salary is ok. good brand.

Cons

run like a dictatorship. managers are completely impotent. and engineer only know how to push the bug to others and dont really work towards solving it. if you really try to solve the issue, you will be told that you r wasting time and you will be put into low rating. its been a torture working in nvidia. glad i left for good. there are no customers for tegra.

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