At long last, a perfect fit - Senior Hardware Engineering Manager NVIDIA Employee Review

5.0
Jan 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Visionary senior leadership that creates not just products, but entire markets. A flat management structure that is flexible and encourages innovation. Titles are secret, for the most part, which allows a good idea to come from just about anyplace. I enjoy an incredible degree of autonomy and trust. My leaders back me up when things don't go perfectly instead of playing CYA. I have virtually endless flexibility to work how, where, and when I need to which makes finding work/family balance much easier. I've been able to do the best work of my career here. The projects and products I'm designing will change the world.

Cons

I've worked at five major high-tech companies so far, and have seen a lot of cons with the four prior companies of my career. Nvidia is relatively free of the major problems I've experienced at other places. They don't seem to hire many new college grads, though, at least from what I can see from my limited vantage point.

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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
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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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