Nvidia has a pretty high satisfaction rating. I'm curious if thats driven in large part by the stock gains. Let's say the stock price didn't rise exponentially and instead, was just trading sideways for a while or slightly increasing. Would you still be happy working there? #nvidia #nvidiacareers TC: 30k
That TC is 30k a month or what ?
That is per year. The rest of their pay is in 🍌
I'd actually love to know what it is like to actually work in Nvidia. We only hear people raving about the stock all the time.
It’s so much on the org, like any other company. Overall the culture is positive and few people are hard to deal with.
Yes, positive culture and people want to work and help make things more successful. Of course there are outliers in terms of teams and people, but overall still a good place to work. (This was true even before the stock rise. Arguably it has gotten worse after because too many unnecessary people have joined for the wrong reason and not always being the team players, but I guess that is bound to happen somewhat when the company grows! Hope we don’t lose our culture!)
Stop. This. Fucking. Obsession. With. NVDA.
I'd be happy to work there even as a contract employee with no stock options 😅 Several of my NLP grad program alums work there in a role called generative AI analyst and it sounds fun. They just won't tell me how I can go about getting the job too. It's one of those secret roles that never gets posted (and apparently it's a contract role).
Cash compensation is less compared to FAANG but is not bad by any means. Rest is all dependent on teams. Some people are working on weekends while I don’t have to grind more than 40 hours per week.
Like all large companies it just depends on the team. Company policy from the top, however, seems to take care of employees more than other companies (AMZN looking at you). Maybe not in terms of salary but overall well being.
No layoffs, no RTO mandate, lots of support during pandemic so we could focus on doing good work. I’d definitely still be here without stock growth.
This. Culture is very positive, smart people around you who are really interested in building stuff and not so much focused on TC. That paid off really well to long timers. I know many excellent engineers who are top in their field (papers, writing standards, patents) Overtime I had multiple offers from FAANG (market test to make sure I am not obsolete) but what kept me back is culture. I have seen stock in the bottom so if stock drops won't affect me or the likes of me at NVIDIA. With recent growth, NVIDIA attracted top talent and some of them are focused on TC so it's diluting culture a bit.
If you put a $ value to the global free days, vacations, family time, WLB, not dreading a shareholder driven layoff, having weekends for yourself and take advantage of all such perks, you’ll actually find that we are actually well off in Nvidia. Especially if you have young kids, the time you can spend with them is literally priceless (you can’t go back to it after they are older). I find that many employees are not fully utilizing all these “perks” that they actually have at Nvidia.
Most of us old guard are happy at Nvidia. Even before the stock went stratospheric. We work on core compute problems and don’t have the ick of working on social media products that directly support genocides/fascists/teen suicide while their robot CEO builds his doomsday bunker in Hawaii. Our CEO supported WFH/remote from before COVID, doesn’t do layoffs just to please the market , supports employees/women to have families and actually asks us to have a good WLB. You can see online that his approval ratings are 98%. Yes the pay is slightly lower. You choose what you like.
Let me put it this way - if money was not an issue, I wouldn’t mind still working here. The work is interesting, and people are mostly good. Sadly, money is still very important, and getting promoted at Nvidia seems to be impossible. So I’m looking at switching, and I’m even willing to drop - temporarily- my TC for this.
Sorry to hear it. Do you think it's just an org problem or a company wide problem?
Money is important but ready to drop TC ??
Historically NVIDIA has been regarded as a good place to work with great company culture. Pay is low compared to FAANG-types before stock appreciation, so tbh it was never in those discussions as top places to work, at least for SWEs.
They are doing really interesting stuff though. I thought that might attract a specific subset of SWEs who prioritize "cool" work over pure total comp.
It’s not about “cool” but we have historically tended to work on “important” core “computing” problems. Yes they tend to be cool if you like working on such things.