Good company; Good leaders; Not the best benefits - Senior ASIC Design Engineer NVIDIA Employee Review

4.0
18 Oct 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Nvidia has some scarily smart engineers & leaders. If anyone is considering starting/growing a career in Electrical Engg/System Software, it is definitely a great place to start and is also looked upto in the industry. Leadership does make an effort to be as forthright as possible. Company is small in size nimble enough for hard workers to get good visibility/growth.

Cons

Nvidia probably lacks visionaries. They have never really owned a market other than discrete GPUs. With all that planning and reorgs, they somehow lose the plot in the process. Tegra is yet to come to the party. There is the Grid cloud gaming market & the automotive that probably will bring in some dough but I don't know if it will be a cash cow like the Geforce business. Until that's sorted out, comp will definitely take a back seat. NV doesn't give RSUs and bonuses to even experienced engineers. Only top brass in management and engineering get it.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
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Pros

Management is competent and actually cares about employee welfare. Jensen is the least sociopathic CEO I've ever worked under. The work has been interesting and I was actually allowed to do things right, and not just "right now".

Cons

The company is 3X the size it was when I joined, with all the usual problems of massive growth. And of course the AI hype at Nvidia is intense.

5.0
30 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

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