NVIDIA reviews

4.5

91% would recommend to a friend

(5,494 total reviews)
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Jensen Huang

98% approve of CEO

91% positive business outlook

NVIDIA has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,494 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 30, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary and benefits. Nvidia is a large company, so your experience will be largely determined by which group you work in. I saw some engineering groups that seemed like good places to work. But check out the manager and co-workers carefully.

Cons

I worked in the mobile group as a technical writer, but the title is misleading. All technical writing in the mobile group is performed by engineers, and tech writers simply convert it to PDF or HTML and release it to the proper channels. It's strictly document production, churning out docs under very heavy time pressure. The only docs "written" by tech writers are Release Notes-type docs. API References and meaty technical documents are written by engineers. Beware: I was told during the interview that this was a writing position. However, all Technical Writer positions in the mobile group are more accurately described as document-production jobs. In fact, real technical writing in the mobile group is not valued; no time is allocated to produce proper documentation. What is valued is churning out engineer-written docs at a fast pace. Sadly, people in the mobile group who can spew out documents at a quick rate are placed in managerial positions, even if they are over-reacting, micro-managing bullies with no people skills. Beware you don't end up working with one of those.

3.0
Jul 25, 2013

Wild ride

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast moving, smart people, good products, chance to innovate, better than average pay & benefits

Cons

game plan is always changing, low worklife balance, demanding bosses

3.0
Jul 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very strong leadership Quick project turnaround, usually between 6 to 9 months Easy to relate your own work contribution to end product, which could be satisfying

Cons

Bug fix requests frequently get labeled with "will not fix" or "fix in next chip/architecture" because there simply is not enough time or human resources to clean up design. There is simply too much fire-fighting here. Hardware is not designed very cleanly because of this. Some engineers may get frustrated by having to debug a debug feature. Some projects end up looking like a huge stack of bandages because of poor planning, discipline and execution. Very poor documentation, and lack of redundancy - one could also look at this as efficiency and leanness, but this could be problematic when key engineers jump the boat.

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