Great Compensation, Organizational Disaster - Senior Software Engineer NVIDIA Employee Review

3.0
May 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

* Generous compensation, especially given the meteoric rise in stock value * Generous parental leave (For US-based employees, 22 weeks PTO for birthing parents + 4 weeks to east back into work) * Remote-friendly

Cons

*Organizational nightmare (at least my team and those couple I interact with directly) compared with the four tech companies at which I have worked previously. Caveat: I joined via acquisition, so my experience may not be representative, as my group a few dozen engineers was grafted onto an existing team. That said, it is clear that the existing team was pretty dysfunctional before we joined. Priorities are constantly in flux, and changes are not well communicated to the entire team. Requirements for projects often change as well, and sometimes aren't even written down. Relevant information about plans is split between JIRA, an internal bug-tracking tool, and various google docs and sheets to which not everybody has access. I often find my work blocked on multiple fronts for weeks at a time -- I've been here for four months, and I have to actively search for things I can do right now even though I know my team as a whole is not on track to meet our deadlines. The software product I work on is a mess and was cobbled together piecemeal without any thought for the user. I assume the hardware division is much better, because I don't understand how this company is so successful otherwise. *Bare-bones spending on things that could actually impact productivity. Example: we appear to have only the mid-level subscription to our source control software, which means that we cannot search for code across multiple repos at once.

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5.0
Jul 2, 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
Jun 30, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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