NVIDIA reviews

4.6

94% would recommend to a friend

(3,899 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 3,899 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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1.0
May 28, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you do not care about work, you want to socialize, or to play games, you got it, that's a place for you.

Cons

There is no other place in the Bay Area where management has so much power over Engineers. In NVIDIA Engineer = Slave, each engineer is a slave for at least one manager, there are many cases where if you do a good job you get moved around between 2 or 3 managers. This way many managers can enjoy your services.... Loyalty and years serving the company is the only thing that matters. If you are a good performer and you do your job right, management will make sure you work alone, management will make sure you are isolated. As long as you keep quite and you never question your managers, things go well. Some VPs are plain borderline criminals, if they were not working for NVIDIA you would say they were part of the godfather trilogy. They never achieved anything in their career, they are just friends of the big boss.

2.0
May 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good to work in a Product company which has a Global enviroment structure and learn different types of work if you get allowed. Jensen is leading the company in very strong way and just because of him the company is improving in various platforms.

Cons

The Local Directors are surrounded by Managers whom politics is more important than the Company work. The managers are behaving like the company is running just because of them. If you do Good work then your work will not be recognised by your name but they will show as they have done this task and if you are lagging in something then they will focus your week points to upper management (Local Director). Many managers are just enjoying email-emails to check whether there is any spelling mistakes in the email even if the topic is important for the company. Looks like they are Professors from Cambrige University and joined NVIDIA for checking spellings only and not for any technical issues. Many of them are overloaded with the work and we need to ping them for any approval 4-5 times and they don't know how to use Blackberry given to them to see if any email arrives in their INBOX. Local Directors are keeping quiet even if any employee is doing complaint against any Managers. As per Managers Local Directors are always out of reach for them and they don't have proper knowledge about NVIDIA policies and need to take approval for each request from Local Director. For a simple request we need to wait for at least 15 days to get the approval from the Manager just because of this reason. Even HR team is doing the same thing and they don't have time to listen employee and reslove the issues.

1.0
May 14, 2010

Right place if you LIVE to WORK 24x7

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Well structured development process Good physical infrastructure that resembles a star hotel Remotely located to focus on work Inspiring CEO

Cons

- Site is Lead by Joker that makes no sense when he talks (or shakes) - No appreciation for Job well done - Politics played by Senior Management - No Honesty in the "Intellectually Honest" tag line - Force India emps to be non-performers to fit the bell curve - Local management is not empowered Absolute no planning of work, day-to-day assignment, at most weekly, absolutely direction less. CEO has 4 years direction, emps have 8 hours direction. Exec staff, senior management has NO CLUE. Its always "I want you to do this, but again i might be wrong" by senior mgmt. Reviews are PCCed - Productivity, Capability, Culture. One Director says P = C+C, other says only 1 point increment every year. After PCC, every emp is ranked. How can you rank 5000 emps? most of india staff is ranked low. If you walk-on-water, you are rewarded with 1 point UP and paid to market. If you do your job well you are paid 60% of what market pays. Every year 5% attrition is forced in this way to bring new and cheap labor. Entire management including HR knows about incapable senior executives, but no action is taken since they are close to CEO, but emps are regularly pushed out in the name of PIP (performance improvement plan). Why this is not done for exec and senior management? Site leadership is a joke. leader is joker. Crystal clear communication (written and verbal) by CEO is also mis-interpreted and communicated. US centric, absolutely insensitive to local timings, meetings end by 2300hrs and start early!

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