NVIDIA reviews

Worst part first: do NOT count on Nvidia if you're sick. Things were nice and well when I was OK, but when I got diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease, they did everything they could to get rid of me. My manager, with full support from HR, *doubled* my workload and assigned me to a team that worked nights in the hopes I would quit. When that didn't work, they fired me under the BS excuse that I had a 2nd job (which I had throughout the 4 years and they knew about, so it was just a guise to get rid of me). As a result, I lost all my unvested stock, my life insurance, my health insurance and my income, all at a time where I was fighting for my life. Another con is their time-off policy, which is the classic "unlimited" trick. You supposedly are not limited, which pressures people to take the minimum and they can also avoid paying any kind of overtime even when they worked me to the bone. In other words, this is just one more business that runs on exploiting people.

It is nearly impossible to grow your career here. Little opportunity or support for transferring into other departments or roles. Newer senior management are awash in politics and are more interested in building empires than in supporting their reports. No yearly cash bonus. Instead you get RSUs that vest over 4 years. If you contribute to your ESPP plan, they use that in factoring how much RSUs you get at focal review time. Not quite fair as ESPP is voluntary. and can change mid-period. Medical benefits are finally starting to compete with the rest of the valley but still lag on 401K contribution matching, cost of medical care for dependants, etc. Educational benefits at Stanford are primarily for CS, EE, EEE, AI majors. There is nothing for management or marketing professionals under this program. There is a separate program that covers just over $5000/year for other education, but this won't cover an MBA. It might cover one or 1.5 classes a year at Stanford. I haven't heard of anyone getting their MBA covered through NVIDIA like at other companies I've worked for. Lunches are supposed to be subsidized, but it's less costly to go out to eat at a restaurant. No snacks provided. Because there is no official vacation time at NVIDIA, if you leave or are laid off and haven't used much vacation time, you've essentially lost it. Meager to absent travel budgets. The management encourages those on global teams to just do video conferences to save money. CFO is constantly cutting costs and does a great job at this but sometimes we spend so much time on how to cut costs, or justifying expenses that we waste money in the lengthy discussion process.