Nvidia

Very open culture. People are open to suggestions from even new college graduates and always ready to discuss ideas.

I had the opportunity to work with some of the best people in Bangalore. I received tasks with clear goals and appropriate guidance. I could bug my lead from time to time to get feedback and help, and I made really good progress in a little time, resulting in a lot of confidence boost.

I joined with very little real-world skills (no Perl/shell scripting, not much programming or Verilog), but I was soon able to ramp up on most things because of the interesting work.

It is a less people, high-output kind of company, so even though people are helpful, they may be pressed for deadlines. There is no official training and not-so-good documentation, so you have to develop some soft skills of bugging the right people at the right time to make forward progress. If you don't have initiative, you can't survive here.

Engineers may be exposed to some high-level decisions every few months when product-level changes are made to adjust to the market. Similarly, there are a lot of role changes depending on the priority of projects, so it causes some re-focusing issues. Also, you don't have ownership of something for a really long time, so you can't milk your invested time fully.