Offer analysis and WLB in NVIDIA hardware team
I’m at the offer stage (IC4, est ~315k TC for Bay Area ) for a SWE role at NVIDIA under the hardware org and would love it if some current NVIDIA engineers can provide some insight into some of my questions. - The company is clearly currently dominant in the ML accelerator space, but what is the direction of innovation now? Any signs of stagnation or (questionable) pivoting? - What is the morale and WLB like? I ask because I know the stock has been doing great the past few years, so from a financial perspective I’m sure people are quite happy about it. But from a workload perspective, especially around new the products, tooling, and infrastructure for all the AI / LLM efforts, and trying to be on the leading edge of these efforts, I wonder how stretched and stressed folks really are. How are the expectations like, and how do they affect overall sentiment and stress? - What is the flexibility around RTO? - What is the policy of switching teams? Is it normally after a 1-2 years that you have the option to look for other internal teams? #swe #software #nvidia
I am on a team that is working on an exciting product. It’s not hardware though. It’s great to see the progress from this org and all the cool things engineers are building. WLB is dependent on the team and role. WLB is good for me, but there is a lot of work to do so I am always busy. I enjoy my work so it’s not a big deal if I work a little over. I am remote so no RTO for me. This company has always said remote is fine, though I hear some groups want you in the office. Regarding switching teams, I heard that you need to get your current manager’s approval before jumping teams.
Did you end up making the jump?
How easy or difficult is it to change teams when you are in nvidia ?
Do you work at C1?
Not anymore. Currently in big tech